Emmet Cohen

You may not know that there's some riffs from that Duke Ellington tune that wind up on Jimmy Forrest's Night Train tune.

Anais Reno here with the pianist Emmett Cohen, and we heard I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So.

This comes from her album that she recorded when she was 16 years old.

It's called Lovesome Thing.

or conversations with iconic jazz elders whose lives sound like movie scripts from a forgotten age, like the late George Wein, Creed Taylor, Al Schmidt, and Tommy LaPuma.

And of course, there are the piano players, Fred Hirsch, Kenny Werner, Aaron Parks, Jason Moran, John Batiste, Sullivan Fortner, Larry Goldings, George Colligan, Emmett Cohen, Vijay Iyer, John Madesky, Aaron Goldberg, Joey Alexander, Harry Connick Jr., and the still great Ben Sidron.

all have shared their stories with me here.

Hey, as Muhammad Ali maybe said, it ain't bragging if it's true.

Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants.

We're going to continue on now with the latest release from pianist Emmett Cohen.

The name of that album is Universal Truth.

And half of that album is a tribute to Miles Davis.

The name of the album is Panta Ray, and it features David Borgo on soprano sax, Josh Nelson on piano, Luca Alamano on bass, and Dan Schnell on drums.

All of those members of this quartet from Southern California, LA, and San Diego.

And before that, we heard, too, from Emmett Cohen's album Universal Truth, beginning with the Miles Davis composition, Budo, and that was followed by a Jimmy Heath composition that Miles Davis often played, and that one is called Gingerbread Boy.

As I mentioned earlier in the show, last weekend I had the opportunity to attend a great festival here in San Diego.

It was just fantastic.

Among the people onboard, Melody Gardot, Candy Dulfer, Emmet Cohen, Benny Benack, John Splittorf.

Josh Groban performed the first night.

Uh, Boz Scaggs was onboard.

I've not... really had the opportunity to...

I met Emmett Cohen very briefly when he was playing in Manchester.

He had like two UK dates and we did the support for him.

And I was a bit like,