Kelan Phil Cohran, Spiritual and Experimental Jazz Icon, Dead at 90

Chicago-based trumpeter/cornetist, composer, and spiritual-jazz innovator Kelan Phil Cohran (often billed as Philip Cohran) is dead at the age of 90, The Chicago Tribune reports. Cohran was known for his work for co-founding the influential avant-jazz-focused collective the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (the AACM) in Chicago, which featured Art Ensemble of Chicago figureheads…