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The Emmet Cohen Trio At Buffalo’s 'Art Of Jazz'
by Frank Housh
The Emmet Cohen TrioBuffalo AKG Art Museum Auditorium Art of Jazz Buffalo, NYMay 19, 2025 The Emmet Cohen Trio closed the 2025 “Art of Jazz" Season with a high-energy performance featuring dynamic interplay and a dive into jazz history. In 2019 Emmet Cohen received the American Pianists Association's Cole Porter Fellowship, accelerating a career trajectory that four years ago led “All About Jazz" writer Zachary Weg to comment, “[t]hirty years old and ...
Continue ReadingEmmet Cohen, Warren Wolf, Miguel Zenon, And More
by Tony Poole
This is the first edition of the new radio-style Jazz First podcast series “They Call It Jazz." This is my first radio work for 16 years, and 30 years since my days at the BBC. I'm a little rough around the edges and a few tweeks are needed, but generally, I am fairly pleased with the overall production. Every week I select ten brand new releases to keep AAJers bang up to date with “what's new." The page features New ...
Continue ReadingEmmet Cohen: Vibe Provider
by Mike Jurkovic
All round shaman, musical advocate, and positive vibe provider, Nigerian-born Michael Olufunmilola (Funmi) Ononaiye (1968-2023) was known and beloved by everyone in the artistic and social circles of Manhattan's music scene. He was an A&R rep at Atlantic Records. He was a DJ, percussionist, and chief programmer at Jazz at Lincoln Center. He had a deep effect on everyone. That effect can be viscerally felt on the way-too-good, Vibe Provider. It sails. It sweeps in on a hop ...
Continue ReadingEmmet Cohen Trio At Gates Concert Hall
by Steven Roby
Emmet Cohen Trio June Swaner Gates Concert Hall Denver, CO February 3, 2024 Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night will keep Emmet Cohen fans from coming out to see him and his trio perform in concert. That was the case last Saturday night at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts. Bundled up to brave the impact of a recent snowstorm, concertgoers showed up well before the doors opened. Swaddled ...
Continue ReadingEmmet Cohen On His Current Tour And Latest Release
by Steven Roby
Jazz pianist and composer Emmet Cohen is one of his generation's pivotal figures in music and the related arts. Leader of the Emmet Cohen Trio and creator of the Masters Legacy Series, he's an internationally acclaimed jazz artist, a dedicated educator, and a finalist in the 2011 Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition.On this episode, we featured and discussed the songs “Just The Way You Are." and “Isn't It Romantic" and talked about his current tour.Thanks for ...
Continue ReadingWendell Harrison, Kris Berg, Houston Person & Emmet Cohen
by Joe Dimino
The 833rd Episode of Neon Jazz is a year end showcase featuring some wonderful modern jazz released in 2023. We begin with pianist Emmet Cohen who came to greater prominence during the pandemic where he also collaborated with Houston Person. From there, we hear from Dan Balmer, Wendell Harrison, Joshua Redman and Kris Berg. In between, we get some tasty tracks from Jennifer Wharton, Herb Silverstein and Paris Red. We close out the hour with The Flying Horse Big Band. ...
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