Concert Review: 'The Emmet Cohen Trio'

The 2025 'Art Of Jazz’ Season Closes With A Sparkling Performance

The Emmet Cohen Trio closed the 2025 “Art of Jazz” Season with a high-energy performance featuring dynamic interplay and a dive into jazz history.

A set list follows this review.

The Emmet Cohen Trio, Sunday May 18, 2025. Lipsey Auditorium, Buffalo AKG Art Museum. L-R Emmet Cohen, Philip Norris, and Joe Farnsworth. Photo by the author.

Emmet Cohen

In 2019 Emmet Cohen received the American Pianists Association’s Cole Porter Fellowship, accelerating a career trajectory that four years ago led “All About Jazz” writer Zachary Weg to comment, “[t]hirty years old and one of the finest piano players to emerge in decades…”

During the COVID lockdown, Cohen created “Live From Emmet’s Place,” in which he played concerts in his fifth floor, Harlem walkup. The popular web series highlights Cohen’s genial, gregarious manner and has gone far to introduce a new generation to jazz.

Cohen is a keen jazz historian who has sought out its living masters. Indeed, Cohen’s discography includes five installment…