DANNY COHEN ____________________________________________________________________________ contact/mailing list: cohedanny@hotmail.com _____________________________________________________________________________ "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.
Danny, what's doin'? Whatcha doin' tonite, man? If you're not busy, come over to The Delancey tonite and see us play!
Monday, July 31st@9:30pm. Only $5. We're doin some new songs too, I think you'd enjoy. and Kismet is singing with us again. all cool!
peace
Stephanie
battlegroove
myspace can be retarded sometimes. like when it posts comments twice or sends blank email messages. other than that, no complaints. i'm a myspace junkie. lol
me gusta su musica. es muy especial. yo soy boogerbutt.
lol. don't be a stranger. how come when i first found your page it said you had only tom as your friend and now i come back to find you have plenty of friends. i'm glad i'm one of them. lol.
by the way, please spend some time to hook up your page. make us laugh, cry, something. oh wait, you already are, great tunes...
me gusta su musica. es muy especial. yo soy boogerbutt.
lol. don't be a stranger. how come when i first found your page it said you had only tom as your friend and now i come back to find you have plenty of friends. i'm glad i'm one of them. lol.
by the way, please spend some time to hook up your page. make us laugh, cry, something. oh wait, you already are, great tunes...
