Phil Cohran School of Music

Phil Cohran School of Music 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

c tirelessly in schools and prisons. Kelan's legacy of training and creating the stars includes of the likes of Earth Wind & Fire, Chaka Khan, Dee Alexander, Ghalib Ghallab, Kahil El Zabar, and Yosef Ben Israel to name a few, and certainly inspired the world and changed the face of music. And the legacy continues.....

He also raised a large family: eight of them are the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. For each of them, their first teacher was their father, who famously insisted on giving them music lessons not just for several hours after school, but for several hours before school as well. Their father’s music was all around them as children; they all vividly remember lying in bed at night not being able to sleep because their father was rehearsing with the Jazz Workshop downstairs. His sons
are now touring around the world, spreading their fathers legacy and a new generation of music. Evolution is at hand......

We continue to offer free music instruction, and as the students gain a level of mastery, they have the opportunity to perform professionally
with Phil Cohran, himself. Course study includes, brass instrumental instruction, Strings, wood winds, keys, percussion, guitar, the harp, vocal instruction, music theory, and astronomy. A daily regime of musical instruction is prefered/ required, so that your progress will be excellerated.

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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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Find Phil Cohran bio, songs, credits, awards related and video information on AllMusic

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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...

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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".

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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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