Avishai Cohen is a musician who is not unwilling to surprise his audiences. Radical departures, small and subtle changes in his music and thinking, even using continuity to elicit new directions by drawing on the familiar before entering uncharted territory. In this respect Cohen is proving himself to be quite the adventurer, yet still working with parameters that ensure the identity of the creator of the music is clear to hear. A big departure from his last outing for ECM, Big Vicious, the trumpeter returns to an all acoustic quartet for Naked Truth and only drummer Ziv Ravitz stays on from the previous album. Joining forces once again with pianist, Yonathan Avishai with whom he has a long musical association and has played on four of the five recordings that Cohen has made for ECM including the outstanding duo set, Playing The Room (2019). The quartet is completed by another long term colleague in bassist, Barak Mori, but once again the music presented is quite different from the earlier albums that all four musicians have created together.