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Date(s) - 11/14/2013
9:00 PM - 11:30 PM
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“A breakthrough moment” – The Chicago Tribune
“The River is composer-arranger Ryan Cohan’s most ambitious and important work to date.” – JazzTimes
- Ryan Cohan – piano, composer
- Bob Sheppard – saxophone, flute
- Joe La Barbera – drums
- Lorin Cohen – bass
A river is both a place and a journey, intimately connected to the locales along its route while moving inexorably forward. On his fifth CD, The River (2013, Motéma Music), Cohan navigates a path that courses through East Africa and his native Chicago, reflecting the sights, sounds and emotions along its shoreline. In its sweeping musical landscape, Ryan’s vivid suite fluidly commingles the ancient and the modern, the spontaneous and the impressionistic, the cerebral and the passionate.
Cohan’s most ambitious work to date, The River was inspired by a trip to the tumultuous regions of Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and the Democratic Republic of Congo sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. Chosen by a panel that included State Department officials as well as Wynton Marsalis and other members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Cohan was chosen as a musical ambassador in the tradition of Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Duke Ellington, all of whom toured conflict-riven nations to spread goodwill through jazz.
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