Trio for Flute, Alto Saxophone, and Piano

Year: 2017
Duration: 14:00
Personnel: Flute, Alto Saxophone, Piano

Premiere: 19 March 2018
Manhattan School of Music
New York, NY

Available from Ravello Records

Available from Ravello Records

The final work is Steve Cohen’s Trio for flute, alto saxophone and piano. It’s cast in three conventional movements. The first is refined, almost Gallic, though there are sparkling exchanges. The central movement is a blues, the flute stating the themes with the tenor counter-theming and then the two instruments entwining over the piano. The finale is lyrical and vibrant with a ‘Fast Afro-Cuban Feel’, as instructed by the composer.
— Jonathan Woolf - MusicWeb International reviewing "Heard Again for the First Time"
…an attractive and quite tuneful, sometimes dance-y new Trio for Flute, Alto Saxophone and Piano (2019) by Steve Cohen…
— Ralph P. Locke - artsfuse, reviewing “Heard Again for the First Time”