Festival Eleven, in 1988, is dedicated to Al Cohn, one of the great tenor saxophonists, composers, and arrangers in jazz history, and a long-time COTA supporter, who passes away on February 15 at the age of sixty-two. Cohn is lovingly remembered in the festival program by many of his friends, family members, and fellow musicians, as a singular spirit who touched deeply many lives. This year, the Steve Gilmore/Steve Brown Quintet plays, and the Steamin' Jimmies with Sugar Cone Horns. Neil Braunstein and Local Color play, and Kathy Green fronting her quartet. Phil Woods and Dave Liebman are guest soloists with the COTA Cats. The Al Cohn Memorial Orchestra plays, in mourning and in celebration.
And we might think someday we'll find him
dead over his charts, his water ways out
a failed dream. Nothing like that.
His cabin stands empty and he
sails the straits. We often see him
from shore or the deck of a ferry.
We can't tell him by craft. Some days
he passes by on a yacht, somedays a tug.
He's young and, captain or deckhand,
he is the one who waves.
dead over his charts, his water ways out
a failed dream. Nothing like that.
His cabin stands empty and he
sails the straits. We often see him
from shore or the deck of a ferry.
We can't tell him by craft. Some days
he passes by on a yacht, somedays a tug.
He's young and, captain or deckhand,
he is the one who waves.
...these lines from the final stanza of Richard Hugo's "Salt Water Story."
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