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Al Cohn
In addition to his work as a jazz tenor saxophonist, Al Cohn wrote arrangements for the Broadway productions of "Raisin" and "Sophisticated Ladies".
His son Joe Cohn is a talented guitarist.
Cohn died in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
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La Elemental Music ristampa il catalogo della Xanadu Records
by Maurizio Zerbo
Grazie a produttori illuminati come Don Schlitten, il jazz degli anni Settanta ebbe modo di sottrarsi alle facili contaminazioni del rock o bossa nova. Il catalogo della sua label indipendente, la Xanadu, testimonia la capacità di attrarre con rispetto della tradizione il nuovo pubblico del jazz, riservando ampio spazio ai cosiddetti musician's musicians: artisti di culto per colleghi e addetti ai lavori, ma poco noti al grande pubblico. La riedizione di queste gemme da parte della Elemental, tutte concentrate tra ...
read moreAl Cohn: Four Classic Albums Plus
by David Rickert
Saxophonist/clarinetist Al Cohn could have spent his life as either an arranger or a player, but fortunately he chose to do both, creating a series of records that weren't classics, but nevertheless reached the sublime and poetic elements of jazz. In this collection of four sessions, one is an orchestral session from the fifties, with charts by Cohn; the others are from partnerships, where Cohn tended to do his best work: one from his celebrated collaborations with Zoot Sims; and ...
read moreAl Cohn: We Remember You
by Johnny Wills
Al Cohn was a tenor saxophonist from New York, born in 1925. Sadly he died in 1988, but his performance at the 1986 Oslo Jazz Festival in Norway is documented on this live recording. On this session Cohn teams up with Totti Bergh also on tenor sax, bringing back memories of his many famous past partnerships with Zoot Sims. The first track introduces the female vocalist Laila Dalseth on the Gershwin ballard “Someone To Watch Over Me," ...
read moreAl Cohn & Zoot Sims: Easy As Pie
by AAJ Staff
Once again, Label M mines the vast resources of jazz performances that Baltimore's Left Bank Jazz Society sagaciously recorded, knowing that they were hearing unparalleled music in their midst but not knowing that it would entertain jazz listeners thirty-plus years hence. It seems that the Left Bank group was at its best when it recorded horns, and particularly saxophonists. Even on Easy As Pie, Dave Frishberg's piano lacks clarity due to the on-site instrument's limitations. Unfortunately, the same problem occurred ...
read moreAl Cohn and Joe Newman: Swinging Sessions
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Great jazz in the 1950s has always been a product of happy partnerships. Among these unions was the year-long recording collaboration between tenor saxophonist Al Cohn and trumpeter Joe Newman. Between December 1954 and December 1955, Cohn and Newman recorded on six albums together. These recordings were Cohn's Mr. Music and The Natural Seven; Newman's All I Wanna Do Is Swing and I'm Still Swinging; The Jazz Workshop's Four Brass, One Tenor; and Freddie Green's Mr. Rhythm. In total, there wasn't a ...
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Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Tenor saxophone giants Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon recorded together only once—on Oct. 22, 1976, for the Xanadu label. The result of the lengthy New York session were two albums—True Blue and Silver Blue. Cohn was recording regularly for Xanadu at the time and Gordon had only recently relocated to the States after spending 14 years living in Europe. These recordings preceded Gordon's lengthy relationship with Columbia, which began with his live album for the label two months later—the aptly ...
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Al Cohn: Rifftide, June 1986
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
A year and a half before Al Cohn's death of liver cancer in Feb. 1988, the tenor saxophonist was on tour in Europe. In June 1986, he was in Monster, the Netherlands, recording Rifftide with Dutch jazz musicians Rein de Graaff (p) Koos Serierse (b) Eric Ineke (d) at Studio 44 for the Timelss label. It's one of the finest albums of Cohn's late period and a document that marvelously illustrates what made Cohn special. Cohn was a powerful post-war ...
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Zoot Fest 2011: Honoring Zoot Sims and Al Cohn
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Richard E. Chamberlain, Jr.
Honoring Zoot Sims and Al Cohn and remembering the NYC Jazz Loft of photographer W. Eugene Smith FEATURING: AUTHOR SAM STEPHENSON, PHIL WOODS, BOB DOROUGH, BILL CROW, LEW TABACKIN, RONNIE FREE, BILL GOODWIN, COTA FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA, HOD O'BRIEN & SURPRISE GUESTS Sunday November 13, 2011 from 12 Noon to 6 p.m. in the Keystone Room, East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA 18301 Join us for a relaxed afternoon of music, mirth and memories as we salute Zoot Sims, Al Cohn ...
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The Al Cohn Collection
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania in the northeast United States are home to musicians who like peace and quiet but must be near New York City and Philadelphia, where the work is. The Delaware Water Gap area of the Poconos has become famous in jazz circles for residents including Phil Woods, Bob Dorough, David Liebman, John Coates, Jr., Bill Goodwin, Steve Gilmore and Hal Galper, and for the Deer Head Inn, the region's jazz headquarters. It was at the Deer ...
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Al Cohn
Instrument: Saxophone, tenor
Born: November 24, 1925
Died: February 15, 1988
