Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with veteran Philadelphia-based Jazz Drummer Tom Cohen. We talk about his brand-new 2025 album Embraccable Brazil and a life fully devoted to jazz. This marks his sixth album as a leader — a heartfelt tribute to his lifelong passion for bossa nova.

Tom’s Love of Brazilian music began in childhood, listening to Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 records his parents played. Over the years, he’s performed Brazilian and Latin jazz with a wide range of artists, blending authenticity with deep rhythmic sensitivity. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Tom started on drums in third grade, and at age ten, his mother took him to see the Dave Brubeck Quartet, where he met legendary drummer Joe Morello — a moment that changed everything. By the mid-1970s, he settled in Philadelphia and has been an essential part of the scene ever since.

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Joe Dimino has been writing & creating in a variety of capacities since his college days at the University of Missouri-Kansas City somewhere around 1993. If you are keeping score, that would be about 29 years+. It all began at UMKCs University News as a Sports Writer & turned into a myriad of expressive avenues. Inventing poems, art, video & audio has always been in the proverbial cards.