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Pianist
Emmet Cohen
offers a thoughtfully balanced and heartfelt homage to a longtime friend and mentor with 2024's
Vibe Provider
.
Cohen
is perhaps best recognized for his ebullient online performance series Live at Emmet's Place, which he began streaming from his New York apartment in 2020. Those performances often featured many of the musicians showcased on
, including trumpeter
Bruce Harris
, saxophonist
Tivon Pennicott
, trombonist
Frank Lacy
, bassist
Philip Norris
, drummers
Joe Farnsworth
and
Kyle Poole
, and koshkah percussionist
Cecily Petrarca
. Represented in spirit on the album is the titular "Vibe Provider,"
Michael Funmi Ononaiye
, the beloved New York DJ, A&R executive, and Jazz at Lincoln Center chief programmer who died from cancer in 2023.
Ononaiye
was a longtime supporter and mentor to
, regularly in attendance at many of the Live at Emmet's Place performances. Here,
pays tribute to his friend, offering an array of sounds that speak to their shared passions for varied jazz traditions.
is a fleet-fingered player, steeped in both traditional as well as later post-bop and modal styles of jazz, and the album reflects this holistically broad-minded approach. He opens the album with a solo piano composition, "Lion Song," a dancerly piece inspired by the early jazz of pianist
Willie "The Lion" Smith
. The song moves through several sections as
develops the melody, transitioning from the classical
Duke Ellington
-does-
George Gershwin
style of the first half to the swinging stride style of the latter half. From there, he dives into an equally urbane take on "Surrey with the Fringe on Top" before bringing his full band together for the title track, a colorful, Latin-tinged number full of sun-dappled harmonies and plenty of extended solos. The rest of the album follows suit as
moves through soulful group arrangements like "Unblock the Love" and sparkling,
Oscar Peterson
-esque trio performances like his rendition of the romantic standard "If This Isn't Love," then ends in Live at Emmet's Place fashion with the loose group jam "Emmet's Blues." Throughout all of
, there's a palpable atmosphere of smiling, swinging warmth, one that's indicative of
's own generous and virtuosic skills, as well the abiding influence and, yes, good vibes
brought to his life. ~ Matt Collar
Emmet Cohen
offers a thoughtfully balanced and heartfelt homage to a longtime friend and mentor with 2024's
Vibe Provider
.
Cohen
is perhaps best recognized for his ebullient online performance series Live at Emmet's Place, which he began streaming from his New York apartment in 2020. Those performances often featured many of the musicians showcased on
, including trumpeter
Bruce Harris
, saxophonist
Tivon Pennicott
, trombonist
Frank Lacy
, bassist
Philip Norris
, drummers
Joe Farnsworth
and
Kyle Poole
, and koshkah percussionist
Cecily Petrarca
. Represented in spirit on the album is the titular "Vibe Provider,"
Michael Funmi Ononaiye
, the beloved New York DJ, A&R executive, and Jazz at Lincoln Center chief programmer who died from cancer in 2023.
Ononaiye
was a longtime supporter and mentor to
, regularly in attendance at many of the Live at Emmet's Place performances. Here,
pays tribute to his friend, offering an array of sounds that speak to their shared passions for varied jazz traditions.
is a fleet-fingered player, steeped in both traditional as well as later post-bop and modal styles of jazz, and the album reflects this holistically broad-minded approach. He opens the album with a solo piano composition, "Lion Song," a dancerly piece inspired by the early jazz of pianist
Willie "The Lion" Smith
. The song moves through several sections as
develops the melody, transitioning from the classical
Duke Ellington
-does-
George Gershwin
style of the first half to the swinging stride style of the latter half. From there, he dives into an equally urbane take on "Surrey with the Fringe on Top" before bringing his full band together for the title track, a colorful, Latin-tinged number full of sun-dappled harmonies and plenty of extended solos. The rest of the album follows suit as
moves through soulful group arrangements like "Unblock the Love" and sparkling,
Oscar Peterson
-esque trio performances like his rendition of the romantic standard "If This Isn't Love," then ends in Live at Emmet's Place fashion with the loose group jam "Emmet's Blues." Throughout all of
, there's a palpable atmosphere of smiling, swinging warmth, one that's indicative of
's own generous and virtuosic skills, as well the abiding influence and, yes, good vibes
brought to his life. ~ Matt Collar