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Emmet Cohen

Multifaceted American jazz pianist and composer Emmet Cohen has emerged as one of his generation's pivotal figures in music and the related arts. A recognized prodigy, Cohen began Suzuki method piano instruction at age three, and his playing quickly became a mature melding of musicality, technique, and concept. Downbeat observed that his "nimble touch, measured stride and warm harmonic vocabulary indicate he's above any convoluted technical showmanship." In the same spirit, Cohen himself has noted that playing jazz is "about communicating the deepest level of humanity and individuality; it's essentially about connections," both among musicians and with audiences

Kabir Sehgal: Spirited Warrior for Jazz

By MICHAEL RICCI

Kabir Sehgal has a history of championing meaningful causes for jazz. His wildly impressive background includes five Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards as a producer. He is also the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of fourteen books including Jazzocracy: Jazz, Democracy, and the Creation of a New American Mythology (Better ...

Quarantine Concert Series: Emmet Cohen

Featuring the music of Emmet Cohen
Duration: 57:36

Emmet Cohen: Masters Legacy Series Volume 4: Emmet Cohen Featuring George Coleman

By MIKE JURKOVIC

So here we are, nearly knocking on the door to February 2020, and we're listening to the second of Emmet Cohen's two entrancing, late 2019 releases: Masters Legacy Series Vol. 4 Emmet Cohen featuring George Coleman--a good harbinger for the new year. And heaven knows we could use a boatload of good harbingers these exhausting days. ...

Emmet Cohen: Master Legacy Series Volume 3 Featuring Benny Golson & Albert "Tootie" Heath

By MIKE JURKOVIC

Set aside for the moment that the combined age of the elders here is 174 years. Emmet Cohen's Masters Legacy Series Volume 3 Featuring Benny Golson & Albert “Tootie" Heath is not only a mouthful of a title, but also irascibly and irrepressibly old school. It's as if Cohen, in his youthful (29) zeal and zest ...

Newk, Dave (And Paul), Fats & More

By MARC COHN

Have you gotten used to writing or typing 2020 yet? I'm getting there just from filling out Gift and Messages paperwork and metadata! But let's get to the music, starting with a few 21st century tunes from Orrin Evans (putting the street beat to Ornette), trumpeter John McNeil and Russian saxophonist Makar Kashitsyn. Then Bobby Broom ...

2019: The Year in Jazz

By KEN FRANCKLING

The year 2019 was robust in many ways. International Jazz Day brought its biggest stage to Australia. An important but long-shuttered jazz mecca was revived in a coast-to-coast move. ECM Records celebrated a golden year. The music and its makers figured prominently on the big screen. The National Endowment for the Arts welcomed four new NEA ...

Mike Jurkovic's Best Releases of 2019

By MIKE JURKOVIC

It was this dozen plus of recordings, among many that deserve mention, that gratefully, again and again and again, pulled my attention away from binge watching the destruction of our cherished, yet all too vulnerable democracy. These are the recordings of 2019 that made it evident that we all need to remain vigilant and engaged, or ...

Master Legacy Series Volume 3 Featuring Benny Golson & Albert "Tootie" Heath

By EMMET COHEN

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing); Lady Bird; Promise of the Sun; Reminiscing 1; Woody 'n You; Embraceable You; Reminiscing II; Straight Street; For Heaven's Sake; Just You, Just Me; Reminiscing III; Charleston.

Masters Legacy Series Volume 4: Emmet Cohen Featuring George Coleman

By EMMET COHEN

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: Trinkle Trinkle; I Surrender Dear; For Big G; Don't Blame Me; On Green Dolphin Street; Ugly Beauty; Triste; You've Changed; Db Blues.