Tal Cohen Workshop @ Jazz Night School

5415 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle WA

06 February, 2022

Description

Grammy award-winning jazz pianist Tal Cohen will be in town Sunday, February 6th to perform at The Royal Room, and is taking a detour to Jazz Night School for a special workshop before the show! Beyond Jazz: Blending Traditional Genres with Tal Cohen Sunday, February 6th, 2022 3:00pm - 5:00pm PT ONLINE OR IN-PERSON Register Today! Shake up your solos! This workshop shows you how to take your unique musical influences and incorporate them into your jazz improvisations. Material is presented through the lens of classical music and traditional Jewish folk songs. Israeli pianist Tal Cohen will discuss how his cultural influences diverge from jazz norms to help create new styles of improvisation and compositional forms. Specifically, Cohen will discuss how styles from classical music, traditional Jewish folk songs, and jazz can be blended to create and influence your own original improvisation. Cohen will demonstrate this and provide examples with composed etudes, spontaneously arranged jazz standards, and original composition. You’ll leave this workshop with a fresh perspective, inspired by different world cultures and music styles to create something new and uniquely expressive. And isn’t that what jazz is all about? Register Today! “Pianist Tal Cohen makes a significant statement on Gentle Giants, his second album as a leader. Not content merely to demonstrate his formidable technique, he brings a unique compositional vision to his craft, pulling from his early exposure to Jewish folk music and an extensive immersion in classical composers… shaping a unique jazz vision.” - All About Jazz Based in Miami, jazz pianist Tal Cohen is the winner of the 2014 Barry Harris Piano Competition and the grand prize winner of the 2015 Freedman Fellowship held at the Sydney Opera House. His most recent album, "Gentle Giants", has been getting great acclaim as well as 4-star reviews from Downbeat Magazine, All About Jazz, and Jazz and Beyond. Most recently, Cohen has been touring the world in support of his new record, performing his original compositions, and sharing his unique style to attentive and appreciative audiences everywhere. He's performed and recorded with many jazz luminaries including Greg Ogsby, Wayne Escoffery, Bob Hurst, John Daversa, Ulysses Owens Jr., Ignacio Berroa, and many others. Register Today!