Edmond Cohanier

Edmond Cohanier (born February 28, 1905, Talloires - death date unknown) was a Swiss jazz reedist.

Cohanier worked in Paris for most of his early career, playing in the 1920s with , , Jack Purvis, and Gregor. Cohanier and Lucien Moraweck were bandmates in several ensembles. From 1931 to 1933 he was a clarinetist and saxophonist for Paris's Paramount theater, and during this decade also played with and in ensembles with Louis Armstrong, , Herb Flemming, , Lud Gluskin, , Wal-Berg (fr:Wal-Berg), and . Around 1937, he returned to Switzerland, where he played with Philippe Brun, then left jazz to become a pedagogue at the .

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• Michel Laplace, "Edmond Cohanier". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.