Pianist/Arranger/Composer Ryan Cohan Cohan’s expansive body of work ranges from solo piano pieces to arrangements for symphony orchestra and scores for independent films. He has produced five critically acclaimed albums of original compositions, collaborated with such luminaries as Ramsey Lewis and Joe Locke and is set to start recording a new release entitled Originations, scored for a chamber jazz ensemble consisting of Cohan’s long-standing sextet plus string quartet.
Interviews and show previews with national, international and local jazz artists
Episodes
Thursday Jan 24, 2019
Thursday Jan 24, 2019
On this TBT Podcast we take a listen to an episode from 2013 of Chicago Jazz Revealed with Mike Jeffers recorded live at Katerina's Restaurant in Chicago. Mike's guests include bassist Frank Russell, saxophonist and arranger Geof Bradfield and vocalist Libby York.
Chicago Jazz Magazine and ChicagoJazz.com sponsor the TBT podcast which was originally aired on 90.9FM WDCB Jazz Radio from College of Dupage. Chicago Jazz Revealed tells the stories of local Chicago Jazz Musicians and is hosted by the founder of Chicago Jazz Magazine and ChicagoJazz.com Mike Jeffers.
Visit www.chicagojazz.com/audio-experience
to listen to more episodes and see videos.
Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
Episode 121 of Talking Jazz with Mike Jeffers features and interview with Marlene Rosenberg ahead of her show Winter's Jazz Club on January 31st which will celebrate the music of Bill Evans.
Marlene talks about playing with Stan Kenton, Joe Henderson, Nancy Wilson, Roy Hargrove and many others. Plus she shares her thoughts on the music of Bill Evans and what you can expect to hear at this very special show at Winter's Jazz Club in Chicago.
Monday Jan 21, 2019
Monday Jan 21, 2019
EPISODE 120 TALKING JAZZ with Mike Jeffers, founder of Chicago Jazz Magazine and ChicagoJazz.com talks with Chicago vocalist Elaine Dame. Elaine talks about her upcoming tour throughout the Midwest, her monthly performances at Winter's Jazz Club and how she has carved out a career on the jazz scene.
Thanks to Johnny O's for hosting the show. See more episodes at https://www.chicagojazz.com/talking-jazz-with-mike-jeffers
Monday Jan 21, 2019
Monday Jan 21, 2019
EPISODE 119 of Talking Jazz with Mike Jeffers, founder of Chicago Jazz Magazine and ChicagoJazz.com. On this show Mike talks with vocalists Michele Thomas and Jeff Hedberg discussing their upcoming performance on January 18th & 19th entitled "Celebrating the music of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross" at Winter's Jazz Club. They discuss the history of the legendary group, the challenge of putting a show like this together and what you can expect to hear on Jan 18th & 19th. Thanks to Johnny O's for hosting the show!
Get more jazz information and interviews at www.chicagojazz.com
Thursday Jan 17, 2019
Thursday Jan 17, 2019
Chicago Jazz Radio from Chicago Jazz Magazine and ChicagoJazz.com
On this TBT we present a show that first aired on August 15 2013.
Chicago Jazz Revealed with Mike Jeffers featuring an interview with Abigal Riccards talking about her new CD "Every Little Star" and how she is helping very worth causes with her music.
Tom Muellner talks about his weekly jam session at the Serbian Village, performing throughout Chicagoland with many different groups and even re-calls hanging out with Bill Evans.
The show was recorded on August 15, 2013 at Katerina's in Chicago. The show was recorded live for ChicagoJazz.com and WDCB 90.9 FM and hosted by Chicago Jazz Magazine founder Mike Jeffers.
Thursday Jan 10, 2019
Thursday Jan 10, 2019
TBT - Podcast on the Chicago Jazz Audio Experience. We go back in the vault and pull out an episode of Chicago Jazz Revealed with Mike Jeffers Live from Katerina's in Chicago. The show was recorded live at Katerina's (1920 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago) and aired on ChicagoJazz.com and WDCB 90.9 FM.
On this episode Mike welcomes the stars of the show "Too Hot Too Handel" Roderick Dixon and Alfreda Burke the Jazz Gospel Messiah which is held annually at the Auditorium Theatre. They talk about the crossover aspects of opera, gospel and jazz and also perform live. This is a must listen, especially to the performance at the end.
Visit www.ChicagoJazz.com and www.ChicagoJazzMagazine.com for jazz news from Chicago and the country.
Tuesday Jan 08, 2019
Tuesday Jan 08, 2019
On the first episode of "Talking Jazz with Mike Jeffers" for 2019 Mike sits down with Chicago Jazz Magazine reviewer Hrayr Attarian to talk about growing up in Beirut, Lebanon during the civil war and his love of jazz.
Hrayr shares stories about going to jazz clubs in Beirut, listening to music at an early age, attending medical school and much more. Plus he reviews releases by Rosco Mitchell, Lucas Gillan, Fareed Haque and Kia String Quartet and Volcano Radar.
Get more jazz news at www.chicagojazz.com
Thanks to Johnny O's for hosting the show.
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
We sat down with Ryan and talked about his early years, influences, compositional concepts and where what he has planned for the future.
Wednesday Dec 05, 2018
Wednesday Dec 05, 2018
Chicago Jazz Magazine presents the December 2018 feature interview with guitar master Fareed Haque.
Chicago Jazz Magazine founder, Mike Jeffers, discuss Fareed's early years traveling with his parents and being exposed to cultures throughout the world, his brief stint at the University of North Texas, coming back to Chicago and sitting in at jazz and blues sessions throughout the city while attending Northwestern University, touring with Paquito D'Rivera, signing to Sting's record label, touring with his own group and much more.
Plus they discuss his new release with the Kaia String Quartet which is just out on Delmark Records entitled the New Latin American Music for Guitar and String Quartet.
We hope you enjoy the December 2018 feature interview with Fareed Haque.
Friday Nov 02, 2018
Friday Nov 02, 2018
Chicago Jazz Magazine presents the November 2018 feature interview with Blue Note recording artist Patricia Barber. Chicago Jazz Magazine founder, Mike Jeffers, talks with Patricia about her early years growing up in Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska, studying phycology in college and then following her passion for music and moving back to Chicago to start her career.
The discussion leads to her years at the famed Gold Star Sardine Bar in Chicago where she performed 6 nights a week to a packed house while building her name and developing her musical concepts. They discuss her recording contract with Premonition Records and selling over 120,000 copies of her album Modern Cool which lead to the follow up recording Nightclub that attracted the attention of Blue Note Records where she signed in 1999 and has been ever since.
Throughout the conversation Barber elaborates on starting out in Chicago, sticking to her core beliefs of playing in her own voice, turning down opportunities that would have compromised her creativity, her concepts and process for writing her original music, thoughts for up and coming musicians, her new recording coming out in 2019 and much more.
We hope you enjoy the November 2018 feature interview with Patricia Barber.
Visit www.ChicagoJazzMagazine.com to read the full interview