Ryan Cohan Quartet at Blue Whale

Acclaimed Chicago based pianist/composer Ryan Cohan is bringing the compositions from his recently released album The River to Los Angeles. 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....

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Acclaimed Chicago based pianist/composer Ryan Cohan is bringing the compositions from his recently released album The River to Los Angeles. 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.

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