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and then to

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. There he worked with among many others

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, Karen Young, Andrew Leroux,

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, Oliver Jones, Jean-Pierre Zanella,

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, John Abercrombie,

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, Pat Labarbera and

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. In 1995, he returned to

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where he continued to compose, play, tour and record music with artists like

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, Gary Thomas,

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and Eddie Henderson. Kochan has released several albums as a leader. Among those are ''One Eyed Horse'' (2004) and ''Yearning'' (2006).

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