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Musician

Drummer Tom Cohen has been a staple on the Philadelphia music scene for over 40 years having carved out a niche in a city known for its wealth of prodigious musicians. Though primarily a jazz musician, Tom's versatility has been his hallmark, leading him to contribute his talents in a myriad of musical genres.

Born in Newark, NJ Tom began playing drums at the age of seven and studied rudimentary basics and reading with Gene Thaler. Growing up in the NYC area eventually afforded the opportunity, when Tom was in his teens, to make sojourns to jazz clubs to hear the greats of those times and their influential sidemen. One of those times was hearing Stan Getz and his band and it presented the chance for Tom to introduce himself to Tony Williams, which soon thereafter led Tom to be accepted as a student..albeit after a short audition!

Album

Diggin' In, Digging Out

By Tom Cohen

Label: Double-Time Jazz
Released: 1999
Track listing: Solar, Softly As in a Morning Sunrise, Anthropology, Chagall, The Cat, Desert Flower, Well You Needn't, Not Even a Hat, Truth is Stranger Than Fiction (66:13)

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Article: Album Review

Tom Cohen: Diggin' In, Digging Out

by C. Andrew Hovan
October 1, 1999

Drummers, more than any other instrumentalists, have this thing about flaunting their technical command, often times at the expense of the music in general. Not so as of late, however. Undoubtedly ushered in by the prototypical small band writing and drumming of Tony Williams during the '80s, we've recently seen a wonderful spate of recording activity ...