Jonathan Cohen
About Jonathan Cohen
I'm a piano player in Chicago, in graduate school in philosophy.
My main influences are Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Herbie
Hancock, and Thelonious Monk. I've been playing the piano for about
twenty-two years, and have been working professionally for the last
five years in Chicago. I lead a trio,
and am the house
piano player for a jam session at the Woodlawn Tap (in Chicago) every
Sunday night.
My e-mail address is jdc5@cs.uchicago.edu.
The Tunes
Come Outside and Play (43 kB)
was written a few years
back as part of a major project to investigate jazz harmony in the
language and by the methods of Abstract Algebra. This project is
available on the web
here.
The tune is a Monk-esque blues whose chord
progression comes in four groups of three bars, rather than three groups of
four. The melody works in six groups of two bars. I play it as a shuffle
blues at a relaxed tempo.
Persian Cat (57 kB)
was written as an exercise in constructing melodies
over unconventional chords. I typically do this latin on the head, and swing
on the solos. Usually I play the vamp between the solos.
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