The Israeli trumpeter Avishai Cohen charged onto the scene with his invigorating, all-embracing grasp of the 20th century acoustic jazz legacy in his Triveni trio alongside Nasheet Waits and Omer Avital over the last decade. The mood became smokier and more noir-ish for the 2014 release Dark Nights and it opened the door to his ECM debut Into the Silence a year later; coinciding with his father’s death, its tone is altogether more reflective and sombre. On Big Vicious, his fourth album for the label, Cohen continues in that vein but with a significant twist; the recording is propelled by a plugged-in, guitar-led rock band. The writing is also a collective effort: ‘Fractals’ has an ambient-psych, eerie effects-laden ambience – imagine David Lynch producing In a Silent Way – and his band, made up of four gifted up-and-coming Israeli musicians, at times captures the sound of atmospheric cult rock groups of various eras from Pink Floyd to the Pixies and Portishead through to Radiohead in their stylish if only moderately stimulating chiming guitar-and-effects sound world. Non-originals include a surprisingly effective and faithful reinterpretation of Beethoven’s solo piano piece ‘Moonlight Sonata’ and the band’s take on the Massive Attack hit ‘Teardrop’ pits Cohen’s vocal-like soaring Miles-ish sonority against an instrumental sound that’s reminiscent of eighties Roxy Music. It can weigh a bit heavy on the gloomy side of things as a whole, but Cohen is always impressively deep.