where the faculty included the late and
legendary jazz performer Milt Hinton.
Other mentors include DePaul pro-
fessor Cliff Colnot and jazz improvisa-
tion icon David Bloom.
When Cohan went looking for
work, he connected with Freddie
Hubbard, Regina Carter, Joe La
Barbera and Kent Jordan among many
others in concert. He also earned com-
mercial credits for clients such as
Sears, Toyota and Budweiser.
Education is an important part of
Cohan's initiatives. He has been on the
faculty of the New York Summer
School of the Arts and Chicago's Bloom
School of Ja7.z and participated in
Urban Gateways and MusicAlive!, two
programs through which he's worked
directly with very young students.
"I never set out to compose music,"
Cohan says. "When I was still a teen,
my teacher would give me different
approaches to playing, and I would
compose music to use those approaches.
I worked at a synthesizer and computer,
and that's the same way I write now."
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