The Emily Cohn Jazz Quartet other wise known as EmCo is comprised of current Cal State Northridge Music Majors as well as recent CSUN graduates. Alex Smith, the drummer is a busy LA musician playing rock, church, jazz, classical, musicals, world and more. Shawn Williams, trumpet is a recent graduate of CSUN, this will be his last show with us because next month he is leaving California to attend graduate school at the prestigous Eastman School of music in Rochester New York. Shawn's influences include Freddie Hubbard, Clifford Borwn, Blue Mitchell, Miles Davis, Lee Morgan, Chet Baker and more. Emily Cohn is a senior at CSUN where she has spent her first two years studying jazz piano with Matt Harris and currently studying privatley with the amazing LA piano player/composer/band leader/ co founder of the LA Jazz Collective Gary Fukushima. Emily is largely influenced by the music of Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk and is in love with the playing of Keith Jarrett, Oscar Petter...