With his fluent piano playing, Emmet Cohen brings the tradition of jazz to the forefront while providing the modern twist needed for the current times. On his breakthrough album Future Stride he breathed new life into the one hundred year old style of piano virtuosos such as James P. Johnson and Fats Waller. The title of his following album Uptown In Orbitreferences Blues In Orbit by Duke Ellington, as well as the New York neighborhood Harlem (‘Uptown’)—Cohen lives there in the same street as Ellington once lived.

Emmet Cohen’s apartment has become a hotspot thanks to YouTube—it is where he records the popular series Live From Emmet’s Place, with sessions that feature illustrious guest musicians such as Veronica Swift, Nicolas Payton en Christian McBride. Cohen learned vintage piano styles through his regular gigs in jazz clubs and by collaborating with veterans such as Benny Golson, Ron Carter and Jimmy Cobb. As a finalist of the Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition, Emmet Cohen was received at the White House by president Obama at age twenty-one.

Emmet Cohen piano, Joey Ranieri double bass, Joe Farnsworth drums