Purdue Convos presents: Emmet Cohen Trio and Friends

Young jazz piano phenom Emmet Cohen returns to Purdue with chops that compelled The New York Times to hail him as “an obvious heir apparent to the neo-traditional jazz mantle.”

An educator and jazz outreach machine, Cohen helped us through the COVID-19 pandemic with a streaming concert from his New York City apartment to Convos audiences. He then recorded a live album at Purdue in 2022.

Backed by a rhythm section, Cohen is a talent that must be experienced live. Just ask Downbeat magazine when it gushed about the Cohen trio’s knack for making “virtuosic, breathtaking music carefree and entertaining, an under-appreciated, yet visceral, proof of early-jazz greatness.”