Emmet Cohen
Piano Solo on
Straight, No Chaser

About

Emmet Cohen takes seven choruses of piano on "Straight, No Chaser," the third soloist on this extended Monk blues in F from the Live From Emmet's Place session. At approximately 182 BPM, Cohen navigates the 12-bar form with the swinging rhythmic drive and harmonic ingenuity that define his playing. Following Randy Brecker's nine-chorus trumpet solo and Chad Lefkowitz-Brown's marathon twenty-two-chorus saxophone feature, Cohen brings a different energy to the proceedings, his pianistic textures and percussive attack providing a welcome timbral shift. His seven choruses demonstrate the ability to sustain improvisational interest while maintaining a distinctive voice within this multi-soloist performance.

Emmet Cohen was 30 to 31 years old at the time.