Al Cohn
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1925-11-24
- Active to
- 1988-02-15
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Al Cohn (Alvin Gilbert Cohn, Brooklyn, New York, November 24, 1925 – Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1988) was an American jazz tenor-saxophonist and arranger and composer. Al Cohn was initially known in the 1940s for playing in Woody Herman's Second Herd as one of the Four Brothers, along with Zoot Sims, Stan Getz, and Serge Chaloff. Unlike the better known tenors Sims and Getz, Cohn contributed arrangements to the Herman band. Cohn had a reputation as a lyrical flowing soloist. <a hre
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- human
- Given name
- Gilbert
- Family name
- Cohn
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Stroudsburg
- Spouse
- Marilyn Moore
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- tenor saxophone
- Record label
- Savoy Records
- Image
- Al Cohn, 1965.jpg
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- Al Cohn
- date of birth
- 1925-11-24
- date of death
- 1988-02-15
- birth name
- Alvin Gilbert Cohn
- name in native language
- Al Cohn
- start of work period
- 1940-00-00
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