JazzBuffalo Presents Veronica Swift with the Emmet Cohen Trio
Friday 28th Jun, 2019

Time: Doors 6:30 pm Show 7:30 pm
Cost: 29.75 Students: $20
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At age 25, American jazz vocalist Veronica Swift is now being recognized as one of the top young jazz singers on the scene.

In the fall of 2015, she won second place at the prestigious Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition. In 2016 she was asked to perform a concert of her own at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York City and she was a guest artist with Michael Feinstein at Jazz at Lincoln Center with the Tedd Firth Big Band and Marilyn Maye and Freda Payne.

Veronica (lead image) has been on tour with her parents, renowned jazz pianist Hod O’Brien and celebrated jazz singer and educator/author Stephanie Nakasian. She has appeared on stage with Jon Hendricks, Annie Ross, Esperanza Spalding, Joe Lovano, Bob Dorough, Kim Nazarian, Danilo Perez, and others..

Emmet Cohen has just been awarded the prestigious 2019 Cole Porter Fellowship Award by the American Pianists Association.  A prize that includes a recording contract with Mack Records. and previously won by Sullivan Fortner, Aaron Diehl, and others. Cohen has performed or collaborated with Debbie Allen, Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb, Lea DeLaria, Kurt Elling, Billy Hart, Jimmy Heath, Ali Jackson, Bill T. Jones, Brian Lynch, Christian McBride, and Herlin Riley. Emmet’s Masters Legacy Series recordings with Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue drummer Jimmy Cobb and the legendary bassist, Ron Carter, have garnered worldwide recognition and acclaim.

Tickets: $29.75 Available at: eventbrite.com/e/veronica-swift-and-the-emmet-cohen-trio-tickets-59637148316

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