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The music of pianist and shakuhachi player
Steve Cohn has continually and dramatically evolved. A native of San
Francisco, he performed as a blues pianist in Los Angeles, where he
began studying the shakuhachi flute at UCLA. He then spent two years
in Japan returning to study at San Francisco State University where
he worked with Pulitzer Prize Winner, Wayne Peterson, and also appeared
as a jazz pianist performing with musicians such as Eddie Henderson,
and Sonny Simmons. Ultimately he moved to New York where he has devoted
himself to totally improvised music, combining unconventional use of
non-western winds and percussion with a unique piano style.
Cohn has performed his own works in venues including New York City's
Miller Theatre, New Works October Series, Fiesta International USSR,
the Newport JVC Festival, Sweet Basil, The Great American Music Hall,
World Shakuhachi Festival 1998, the Ottawa Festival; appeared in multimedia
performances with Japanese Taiko drummers and the Elinor Coleman Dance
Ensemble. He was also commissioned to compose and perform an original
work that premiered with the Watanabe Dance Company in Japan. Cohn has
performed and recorded with musicians including Reggie Workman, Jason
Huang, Tom Varner, Fred Hopkins, Karl Berger, Oliver Lake, William Parker
and Bob Stewart.
He has conducted master classes (including the Paris National Conservatory)
and has received grants from Arts International, Meet the Composer, and
the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Two of his recordings, SUFI
DANCERS and ITTEKIMASU, received four star ratings in Downbeat Magazine
and placed on the list of top ten releases in Cadence Magazine. THE
BEGGAR AND THE ROBOT IN DIAMONDS was also chosen on the "Top Ten List of
1997" by Tracking Angle. His recent recordings, BRIDGE OVER
THE X-STREAM and THE BLAIR RECORDINGS have already received much acclaim.
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"Nobody
- and I mean NOBODY - taps into their muse with more insight or creativity.
Steve Cohn is the great hidden secret of American Jazz."
- Carl Baugher, Tracking Angle Magazine
" Cohn's playing is hypnotic and remarkable throughout. He is a true original."
- Robert Spencer, Cadence Magazine
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