Emmet Cohen
Piano Solo on
Ceora

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Emmet Cohen closes the solo section with two choruses of piano on "Ceora" at approximately 128 BPM, bringing his harmonic depth to Lee Morgan's elegant bossa nova. The 32-bar AA' form in A-flat provides a luminous harmonic framework, and Cohen's playing complements the composition's lyrical character with tasteful voicings and melodic invention. Following alto saxophone and trumpet solos by Alexa Tarantino and Tatum Greenblatt, his two-chorus piano feature brings a different timbral and harmonic perspective to close out the performance. The bossa nova feel continues to lend the track its distinctive rhythmic character throughout Cohen's solo.

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