Phil Cohran continues his legacy of training some of the greatest musicians of all time. The AACM had its first meeting in Cohran’s front room.
Course studies include music theory, vocal training, and instrumentation. When Sun Ra moved east in 1961, Cohran stayed in Chicago, founding the Affro-Arts Theater, and recording with the Artistic Heritage Ensemble for his own Zulu Records. With Oscar Brown Jr and Gene Page he wrote and performed in a show commemorating the nineteenth-century Afro-American poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar. He taught musi
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Great Black Music Project Podcast: Kelan Phil Cohran on his time with Sun Ra's band In this 20 minute Interview for the Great Black Music Project, Kelan Phil Cohran talks about his time with Sun Ra's band in the 1950s. Thursday, August 14, 2008…
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Phil Cohran - Music Biography, Credits and Discography : AllMusic Find Phil Cohran bio, songs, credits, awards related and video information on AllMusic
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Kelan Phil Cohran Born in 1927 in Oxford, Mississippi, Philip Cohran played with Sun Ra’s Arkestra and co-founded the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) before establishing the Affro-Arts T...
May 2001 Interview, Wire Magazine..... In the autumn of 1967, Cohran set up the Affro-Arts Theatre as a permanent home for the kind of events that were taking place on the beach that summer. "The band played Friday, Saturday and Sunday, that's how we paid our bills because we had a popular band," Cohran says. "We trained music, history; we had Hebrew, Arabic and Swahili taught free; civilisation classes, forums. We also held conferences there, one conference of Third World countries." The reissue of On The Beach includes a live version of their most famous track, "Unity", recorded at the Affro-Arts Theatre on 15 February 1968. It features Cohran venturing close to Moroccan Joujouka territory with his zithers and an absolutely mindbending guitar solo from Pete Cosey, six years before his memorable contributions to Miles Davis's Agharta and Pangaea: splashes and prismatic shards of intense colour that not even Hendrix was approaching at the time. "You see, when you get in an environment, it magnifies things in you," Cohran says of the milieu surrounding "Unity".
Phil Cohran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kelan Phil Cohran (born in Oxford, Mississippi on May 8, 1927) is a jazz musician. He is known most for his trumpet contributions in the Sun Ra Arkestra in Chicago during 1959-1961 and for his involvement in the foundation of the AACM.
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