Programs at Home: Emmet Cohen
Jazz
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38m
As part of the GRAMMY Museum's Celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month, jazz pianist & composer Emmet Cohen discusses his new album Future Stride, his popular weekly livestreams "Live From Emmet's Place," and how his past experience with the GRAMMY Museum's music education programs shaped his future today. An internationally acclaimed jazz artist, 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. 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. He has performed, recorded, or collaborated with artists such as 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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