Tom Kohn is the proprietor of Bop Shop Records, but over the last 30 years he’s also put on hundreds of concerts and, in the process, gotten close to the artists he loves.
Tom Kohn
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Still bopping
Three months ago Down Beat magazine ran an extensive article titled “Where to buy jazz.” It wasn’t about large chains that deal in volume; it focused on those small, idiosyncratic stores you might find in the hippest neighborhoods of New York City, Boston, or Chicago. But the picture illustrating the article had a two-word caption: […]
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The Bop Shop bop
Recently, a woman strolled into the Bop Shop in search of some jumpblues. Owner Tom Kohn and his staff were on the case with the speed and enthusiasm of a NASCAR pit crew. “We were like, ‘Jump blues? You need Tiny Bradshaw, Louis Jordan. You need Gene Phillips, Todd Rhodes,’” Kohn recalls. The individual […]
