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Ryan Cohan Septet
Ryan Cohan Septet
Date Posted: February 15 2010
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Ryan Cohan Septet
Friday, February 26, 2010
8 to 10 p.m.
Ryan Cohan returns to Gorton to premiere his new extended composition that was influenced by his recent tour of Africa as Jazz Ambassador for the US State Dept.
Ryan and his group have done 3 international tours; 2 with the Jazz at Lincoln Center sponsored Rhythm Road program. This new composition is the result of winning the highly competitive Chamber Music America ‘New Works’ Award. He will be playing with his critically acclaimed septet which has also produced another ‘New Works’ Award—‘One Sky’, which was on several national Best of 2007 lists, including the Chicago Tribune. Ryan is also the recipient of the 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship. Ryan’s new CD, ‘Another Look’ will be released in the spring of 2010.
This is your opportunity to be the first to hear the premiere of brand new jazz music!
Based in Chicago, Ryan Cohan maintains a busy schedule as an in demand pianist, composer, and producer with the top regional jazz and Latin musicians and has performed with master jazz artists such as Freddie Hubbard, Milt Hinton, Jon Faddis, Curtis Fuller, Regina Carter, Andy Bey, Kurt Elling, Kent Jordan, Michael Urbaniak, Pat La Barbera, Ed Shaughnessey among many others.
Ryan also balances his time leading his own trio, quartet and sextet performing his book of original compositions and arrangements at prominent jazz clubs and festivals throughout the US and Canada. In the fall of 2003 he appeared on a solo piano bill at Symphony Center in Chicago showcasing “nine of the city’s best performers”.
Ryan Cohan’s Quartet has been chosen by a panel led by Wynton Marsalis for the Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad program.
Cohan is a member of renowned trumpeter Orbert Davis’ various ensembles, including the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic. He has toured the world with Davis and is also featured on his video release, With Strings Attached, and his two most recent CD releases, Priority and Blue Notes.
Ryan Cohan’s relationship with NEA Jazz Master, and fellow pianist, Ramsey Lewis began in late 1997 when Cohan contributed four compositions, including the title track, for Lewis’ GRP release Dance of the Soul. Their collaborations continued with Cohan touring with Lewis and with his work as the primary arranger on Lewis’ Appassionata, named “Jazz Album of the Year” in Billboard Magazine’s first annual music award in 2000. Most recently, Cohan composed the theme song to “The Legends of Jazz” TV program hosted by Ramsey, and was commissioned to write the arrangements for Lewis’ upcoming solo piano recording.
“Cohan’s gift for melody invents lines that resonate in the mind with such inevitability that you think you’ve heard them before.”—Thomas Conrad, Downbeat Magazine.
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