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Phil Cohran
Oxford, United States
Phil Cohran is credited on 65 releases across 34 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1965–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
65
Pressings credited
34
Albums
7
Decades active
38
In collections
Biography
Kelan Phil Cohran (May 8, 1927 – June 28, 2017) was an American jazz musician. He was best known for playing trumpet in the Sun Ra Arkestra in Chicago from 1959 to 1961, and for his involvement in the foundation of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM).
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Credited work
65 releases · 34 albums · active 1965–2024
- Performance · 124
- Other credits · 18
- Production · 1
Studios: El Saturn Studio · Affro-Arts Theater · The Village Recorder · RCA Studios, Chicago
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

African Skies
2010

The Nubians Of Plutonia
1969

Angels And Demons At Play
1967

Soul Of A Nation (Afro-Centric Visions In The Age of Black Power: Underground Jazz, Street Funk & The Roots Of Rap 1968-79)
2017

In The Orbit Of Ra
2014

Live
2020

Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
2012

We Travel The Space Ways
1967

The Magic City
1966

Music From Tomorrow's World
2002

Angels And Demons At Play / The Nubians Of Plutonia
1993

Visits Planet Earth / Interstellar Low Ways
1992

We Travel The Spaceways / Bad & Beautiful
1992

The Malcolm X Memorial (A Tribute In Music)
1968

Philip Cohran And The Artistic Heritage Ensemble
1967

Interstellar Low Ways
1967
Frequent collaborators
- Sun Ra
- Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra
- Philip Cohran And The Artistic Heritage Ensemble
- Phil Cohran And The Artistic Heritage Ensemble
- Sun Ra And His Myth Science Arkestra
- Sun-Ra And His Astro Infinity Arkestra
- Various
- Sun Ra And His Myth-Science Arkestra
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