DANNY COHEN ____________________________________________________________
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_________________ "His ears are a mile wide" -- Ernie Rideout, Editor-in-Chief, Keyboard Magazine ____________________________________________________________
_________________ Danny Cohen is an uncommonly talented, broadly experienced, and singularly passionate NYC guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger and producer. A New York native, Danny reaches creatively for soul, honesty, tastefulness, intelligence, depth, richness, and power, and as a player aspires the highest standards in craft. ____________________________________________________________
_________________ *After years of eclectic ping-pong through off-broadway pit work, classical choral conducting, pop/funk session guitar and the downtown band scene (and an offhand Asia cover gig?!), Danny has been Zen-traversing through a unique mix of creative and improvisational siutations: directing NYC's original freestyle full song jam (open jam room at jam nite at thestudio.org), playing lead guitar lines regularly at the Washington Square Park central area jam scene, and the winner of 2006 New York Guitar Festival's Springsteen cover contest, to name a few. ____________________________________________________________
________________ *All songs featured here were freestyled: written and recorded on the fly, in one pass. ____________________________________________________________
_________________ *Stay tuned for news of Danny's upcoming frontman/singer/songwriter project and new adventures as session/writer cat. ____________________________________________________________
________________ *Winner of the New York Guitar Festival's Nebraska contest, featuring cover performanes of songs from Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska album, January 13 2006, Winter Garten stage. Winning song: Atlantic City, done with a kind of Michael Hedges/Tracy Chapman feel. For the encore Danny freestyled a tune, recreated here for myspace. ____________________________________________________________
________________ *Host of a series of NYC-based freestyle song jam sessions where songs are written and performed off-the cuff. (thestudio.org, open jam room on periodic Saturdays). Please contact for more info. . . talented singers, songwriters, instrumentalists welcome. ____________________________________________________________
________________ *Rich, modal, passionate and pitch-on jazz scatter and improvisational vocalese artist, often accompanied by David Easton at thestudio.org Jazz jam, and at Washington Square Park. ____________________________________________________________
________________ *Danny's background covers a wide array of musical experiences: arranging and fronting college a capella (U. of Penn, a capella. . .home of John Legend); musical theater acting (Godspell, Into the Woods, Pippin, Carosel, Fiddler, Joseph, Grease); stints on bass and guitar with Off-Broadway pit work (Schoolhouse Rock Live!); international USO Tours (Christmas on Broadway); classical conducting study (Harold Acks, Sarah Lawrence College); classical vocal ensemble (Dalton Alumni Singers), record producing (Dalton Alumni Choir, Dalton Singers, Subway Darwins, Daniel T. Denver, Just Desserts by Dan Elish), jingle arranging for private clients; and playing, writing and recording guitar, bass and vocals with numerous local-NYC acts including Subway Darwins, Cosma Suma, Eden White, Off the Hook, James Jermaine, and other situations in funk-rock, alt-rock, pop-rock, funk and neo-soul. ____________________________________________________________
________________ *And yes, well informed of Seth Green look-alike tendencies.
