EMMET COHEN TRIO - Baam Productions

EMMET COHEN TRIO– Jazz, New-York

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Pianiste et compositeur americain, Emmet Cohen est l’une des figures marquantes de la scène New Yorkaise. Reconnu par ses pairs pour son « touché mesuré et agile, son vocabulaire harmonique chaleureux » ( Downbeat) ils est également formidablement à l’aise sur scène tissant très rapidement des liens de complicité avec le public et les autres musiciens.

Leader du trio qui porte son nom, Emmet est un pianiste international qui s’est déjà produit dans les plus grands festivals de Jazz ( Newport, Monterey, and North Sea jazz), et joue très régulièrement dans des lieux et clubs très connus comme le Rose Hall and the Kennedy, le Village Vanguard, le Blue Note, le Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, le Birdland, le Jazz Standard, le Ronnie Scott’s, le Jazzhaus Montmartre, le Duc des Lombards…

Pendant le confinement, il crée Live From Emmet’s Place, un livestream hebdomadaire aux millions de vues à travers le monde.

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Multifaceted American jazz pianist and composer Emmet Cohen is one of his generation’s pivotal figures in music and the related arts. Downbeat praised the « nimble touch, measured stride and warm harmonic vocabulary » he employs to communicate with other musicians and audiences at what he terms « the deepest level of humanity and individuality. » Leader of the « Emmet Cohen Trio » and creator of the « Masters Legacy Series, » Cohen is an internationally acclaimed jazz artist and dedicated music educator.

Emmet Cohen is the winner of the 2019 American Pianists Awards and the Cole Porter Fellow of the American Pianists Association, and Artist-in-Residence at the University of Indianapolis.

He was a finalist in the 2011 Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition. Cohen has appeared at major international jazz festivals and at Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall and Washington’s Kennedy Center, in addition to headlining at the Village Vanguard and other major New York jazz clubs. For many years he was Hammond B-3 Organist-in-Residence at Harlem’s SMOKE jazz club. During the lockdown he created « Live From Emmet’s Place, » a weekly livestream that received millions of internet views worldwide. Cohen is a Mack Avenue artist.

A Suzuki piano student at age three, Cohen holds jazz piano degrees from the Manhattan School of Music (M.M.) and the University of Miami (B.M.). Emmet Cohen has performed, recorded, or collaborated with Ron Carter, Benny Golson, Jimmy Cobb, George Coleman, Jimmy Heath, Tootie Heath, Houston Person, Christian McBride, Kurt Elling, Billy Hart, Herlin Riley, Lea DeLaria, and Bill T. Jones.

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