Open letter to musicians, artists, & media

Dear Local Musician
Allow me to introduce myself, Lavon Pettis of Sol Cyrans Innernational. As a local promoter and socialite I spend a majority of time researching culture: artists, shows, venues, food, edutainment, and use of language in the media. My passion for music has made me an avid fan of Kelan Phil Cohran www.philcohran.com
As most of know..the culture which is sold and manufactured today is losing it's appeal cuz the people CRAVE..something DIFFERENT...
I am writing you all to share some NFO on something so refreshingly & delightfully NU 4 the SOL in the City of the Go (as they say in South Shore)...

You may have heard about Kelan Phil Cohran, a local musicologist who's roots in music runs deeper than the escape routes Al Capone built round Town..

As I researcher I understand how consumed one can become with work and never have time to nourish your mind with a sense of deeper meaning in life...4 all you NERDS who don't know who he is or is damned 2 know who he is.....additional NFO on Kelan Phil Cohran is provided at the following websites: www.philcohran.com, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Cohran, http://www.chicagoreader.com/hitsville/030725.html, you can listen to the music at SASSAS http://www.soundnet.org/sound/2005/july-2sb.shtml or purchase CDS from Dusty Groves..http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=y64zyykh4z. or wait on some archival researchers like myself or them CATS from Ubiquity Records, Numero Group or some other fan who starts an obscure record company in Europe or Asia & lands in Chicago JUS to put out box sets of Cohran's collections...

LOL..I'm laughing cause I don't eva try to be edutaining..its just a natural progression...as local poet Mama Dean says!!

All I'm saying is due ya research & come to the show.and see Bro Phil live!!!! .Before the Secret is told on Oprah bout his family band (legacy) and the healing powers of his music. This is Bro Phil's first time (in a long while) playing with otha Masters..since Jay McShann, Sun Ra, The Artistic Heritage Ensemble, Pete Cosey, Lou Satterfield, Boa Boa Brown, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble http://www.hypnoticbrass.blogspot.com/

COPY DIS
Jazz Blue...
Taught by Prof..Kelan Phil Cohran and Quartet
December 1, 2007 Door Open at 9 Showtime 10pm
$20.00 to the public
KELAN PHIL COHRAN & QuartetDebut @
ELASTICArts Foundation2830 N. Milwaukee, 2nd Fl., Chicago IL 60618(1 block north-west of Diversey/Kimball) above Friendship Chinese Restaurant

The lineup just keeps getting better!!!!!
First off you have 1 of greatest living musical legends…making a debut with a NU band at 80 years of age…
Then you have a bunch of musicians who have already have achieved international acclaim…who will sit at the feet of the master and learn to play with him
Rumor has it you may get musicians such as Bobby Irving the 3rd...Orlando Condon, Ron Prince…plus a few other Chicago legends
You put them all together.
You have 1 sold out show….
Chicago…this is it….all yawl Nerds. Better come to class…..Room 101...Subject…Musicology. Taught by Prof..Kelan Phil Cohran and Quartet
December 1, 2007
Debut @
ELASTICArts Foundation2830 N. Milwaukee, 2nd Fl., Chicago IL 60618(1 block north-west of Diversey/Kimball) above Friendship Chinese Restaurant
doors open at 9pm show begins at 10pm...
$20.00 Cover..

This is history in the making...

Lavon of Sol Cyrans
773-575-4109
sol_cyrans@yahoo.com

Bio for Ron Prince provided by The Great Black Music Project.. http://greatblackmusicproject.org/registry/ron-prince
RON PRINCE, known best for his eleven year affiliation with The Kinsey Report, was ten years old when WiIlie Dixon opened his studio four blocks from Ron's house on 76th and Racine streets deep in Chicago's southside. It would be four years before Ron would start hanging out there. At twelve, Ron's Dad bought him his first guitar. At fourteen the budding young guitarist helped form The Brighter Side of Darkness. A group of kids from eight to sixteen years old. They quickly caught the eye of the legendary Chess brothers. A family decision to move to Decatur, IL forced Ron to leave Chicago and the band. but a musical force had been unleashed in him and on the world.Ron played with local bands down in Decatur while finishing high school. In 1976 he moved back to Chicago where he enrolled in the greatest blues school in the world: Theresa's Lounge on Chicago's southside. He was amongst many pupil's of the legendary guitarist Sammy Lawhorn; John Primer and Jon Watkins to name a couple of his upper classmen. The twenty year old Ron immnediately started gigging with Johnny Dollar and The Scandalous Band, Bobby Rush and Sly Johnson. At the same time he was gigging with a group of guy's his own age in a band called Mona Lisa. They had the opportunity to open shows for some greats like the legendary Howlin' Wolf. Deeply rooted in the blues these young players began emulation of the more avant-garde rock musicians and found themselves at the forefront of the black Rock/ Blues movement.
In 1978 Ron teamed up with Donald Kinsey, who had just finished a two album stint with Reggae king Bob Marley. Kinsey, Ron, Joe Thomas. (Ron's present day Bassist) and Ralph Kinsey on drums recorded an LP as The Chosen Ones. This record was recorded at Pop Staples studio on 103rd and Michigan Avenue in Chicago. "The band relocated to California for three years. It was during this time that Ron did a stint with Bobby Ingram.After three years Ron moved back to Chicago where Donald Kinsey had already formed The Kinsey Report with his father and brothers. After two years of gigging around, Ron was hired by the Kinsey's and he remained with them for over eleven years. Ron recorded four albums with the group; two on Alligator Record, one on Point Blank and one onBlind Pig Records. Before forming his own group, Ron Prince and Hard Time, Ron left the Kinseys and held down the guitar seat in the legendary James Cotton Band for two years.A rhythm orchestra unto himself and a lead guitarist, who stands along side or above the best in an era over loaded with guitar heroes. Ron Prince, the veteran musician, is now taking center stage with the hunger and energy of a musician half his age. Combining the deep blues of Chicago's post-war era and the more modern sounds that were born from the era, Ron Prince and Hard Time embody over three generations of THE BLUES.