With The Anat Cohen Tentet, woodwind virtuoso Anat Cohen brings audiences an evocative and exciting experience centered around the clarinet. Both on stage and on their critically acclaimed releases, Happy Song and 2019’s Triple Helix, the Tentet weaves a tapestry of sounds, freeing Cohen to explore the full range of the clarinet’s dynamics and demonstrate its vastly expressive character. As JazzTimes says, “With the clarinet she becomes a singer, a dancer, a poet, a mad scientist, laughing – musically – with the sheer delight of reaching that new place, that new feeling, with each chorus.” The Tentet’s repertoire draws on Anat’s diverse musical loves, from Brazilian music to African grooves, and from vintage swing to touching ballads. Above all, the Tentet is another synergistic collaboration between Anat and co-producer/co-arranger Oded Lev-Ari, who is her partner in Anzic Records and who has been a kindred spirit since their high school days in Israel.
The perennial winner of “Clarinetist of the Year” titles from DownBeat, JazzTimes, and the Jazz Journalists Association, Fresh Air’s Terry Gross credits Cohen with “bringing the clarinet to the world” and The New York Times hails her a “Master.”
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From Chicago Tribune Best jazz albums of 2019: Patricia Barber, Miguel Zenon and Anat Cohen Tentet had a very good year By: HOWARD REICH “Anat Cohen Tentet: “Triple Helix” (Anzic Records). Cohen ranks among the world’s most compelling clarinetists, and here she takes on an Everest: the world premiere recording of the title work, Oded Lev-Ari’s Concerto for Clarinet and...
Posted Dec 4th, 2019
From The Sydney Morning Herald Music reviews: Kanye West, Rex Orange County, Elizabeth and more By: JOHN SHAND “ Four out Five Stars This one tears up the rulebook. Forget all preconceptions of what a large jazz band sounds like, and listen to the sonic vistas that New York’s Anat Cohen Tentet opens up with, including on the title track,...
Posted Oct 10th, 2019
From sfcv.org Anat Cohen and Trio da Paz Light Up Dinkelspiel By: ANDREW GILBERT “Growing up in Tel Aviv, Anat Cohen started absorbing standards from the Brazilian Songbook without having any idea of the music’s origins. As an aspiring clarinetist and tenor saxophonist attending the vaunted jazz program at the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts, she learned to...
Posted Jul 30th, 2019
From The Seattle Time Heading to Jazz Port Townsend? Be sure to catch top-tier clarinetist Anat Cohen By: Paul de Barros “Over the past dozen years, clarinetist Anat Cohen has risen to the top tier of jazz, with a cover story in this month’s DownBeat magazine following two Grammy nominations, a commission from Carnegie Hall and perennial wins in polls....
Posted Jul 16th, 2019
From The Jazztimes.com Anat Cohen Tentet: Triple Helix (Anzic) By: JIM MACNIE “Few musical ploys are as riveting as intricacy, especially when the ensemble at hand is sizable. But without a wealth of eloquence in play, elaboration can be its own worst enemy, a knot of tangles void of emotion. Anat Cohen knows this, and though her Tentet’s second album...
Posted Jul 12th, 2019
From Vanity Fair Sisters of Swing By: ABIGAIL JONES “Half a century ago, the acclaimed music critic George T. Simon said everything you need to know about sexism in jazz: ‘Only God can make a tree, and only men can play good jazz.’ This gender bias has deep roots. Jazz has always been a boys’ club, a macho art form...
Posted Jul 9th, 2019
From Downbeat The Eclectic Sensibility of Anat Cohen By: PHILLIP LUTZ “Poised at the kitchen counter in her Brooklyn apartment, Anat Cohen assumed the role of solicitous host. Tall, with waves of cascading hair softening her otherwise commanding presence, the clarinetist reeled off a selection of teas and coffees in such precise detail it would have made a barista’s head...
Posted Jun 21st, 2019
ANAT COHEN TENTET RELEASES ITS EAGERLY AWAITED SOPHOMORE ALBUM TRIPLE HELIX ‘Triple Helix’ available from Anzic Records on 6/14/2019 In a stirring follow-up to its 2017 debut Happy Song, the Anat Cohen Tentet reaches a new crest in its evolution with Triple Helix. The album’s centerpiece is a three-movement concerto composed for Cohen and the tentet, the Grammy-nominated clarinet virtuoso,...
Posted Jun 14th, 2019
From The Washington Post At the Hamilton, clarinetist Anat Cohen and her quartet explode with intensity By: Michael J. West “Memo to jazz producers and promoters across the world: If you want your jazz festival to be festive, have Anat Cohen open it. The Tel Aviv-born, New York-based clarinetist played a set of contemporary jazz at the Hamilton on Friday...
Posted Jun 8th, 2019
From JazzTimes JT Track Premiere: ‘Milonga del Angel’ by the Anat Cohen Tentet JazzTimes is honored to present the premiere of ‘Milonga del Angel,’ the opening track on the Anat Cohen Tentet’s album Triple Helix, to be released June 14 on Anzic Records. Written by the late Argentinean tango master Astor Piazzolla and arranged by the Tentet’s musical director and...
Posted May 17th, 2019
From The Chicago Tribune Reviews: Lyric Opera’s searing ‘Elektra’; Anat Cohen’s Chicago premiere By: Howard Reich […] ‘Triple Helix,’ which clarinet virtuoso Anat Cohen played Friday night in Orchestra Hall, carried no script and or extra-musical message. Yet the profundities of the piece, as well as its sensuous tonal palette, offered much to ponder. Co-commissioned by Symphony Center with Carnegie...
Posted Feb 4th, 2019
From The Chicago Tribune Clarinet star Anat Cohen brings new concerto to Chicago By: Howard Reich When the Anat Cohen Tentet played the University of Chicago’s Logan Center in 2017, listeners had to be struck not only by the band’s range of repertoire but its breadth of instrumental color. Cohen’s buoyant clarinet lines soared above and among the plush tones...
Posted Jan 31st, 2019
From Music & Literature A Conversation With Anat Cohen By: Daniel Medin […] I was wondering about the status of your other collaborations, like The Three Cohens, or the quartet. It seems a tremendous feat, given the separate careers and geographical distance between musicians, to keep all of them running. The Three Cohens and my quartet’“my quartet especially’“those are ongoing...
Posted Jan 21st, 2019
From All About Jazz Geno Thackara’s Best Releases Of 2018 By: Geno Thackara Despite (or in defiant response to) the difficulties of the streaming age, 2018 has seen another musical bumper crop’“especially for those of us who particularly love the sound of the piano. There were enough top-notch offerings to make a list at least twice as long, but these...
Posted Dec 13th, 2018
From NPR Women In Jazz? For Artemis, It’s Bigger Than A Cause By: Nate Chinen Renee Rosnes has seen her share of jazz supergroups. Thirty years ago, she held down the piano chair with Out of the Blue, a youthful all-star crew formed by Blue Note Records. She was a charter member of the SFJAZZ Collective. So she had a...
Posted Nov 26th, 2018
From CUNY TV This edition: Israeli Arts @ 70 “Israeli Arts @ 70” is a half-hour CUNY TV special, celebrating Israeli Arts in honor of Israel’s 70th anniversary. Hosted by Donna Hanover, this Special features a vibrant array of leading and emerging contemporary Israeli artists in Dance, Literature, Film/TV and Music: Anat Cohen, the top Jazz clarinetist in the world;...
Posted Nov 1st, 2018
From WBGO Anat Cohen on the Art of Musical Uplift, and the Experience of Feeling Good with WBGO By: Nate Chinen ‘It’s important to me that music is an engine for feeling,’ says Anat Cohen. ‘If the music is grooving, then I respond. When everybody’s focused on that feeling, it’s elevating ‘” for the people onstage, and for the audience.’...
Posted Oct 1st, 2018
From Mezzo & Culturebox Savourez la crème du jazz moderne israélien avec les frères et sÅ“ur Cohen. Technicité, virtuosité et groove seront au rendez-vous pour ce live des “Three Cohens” Anat, Yuval et Avishai, au festival parisien Jazz à La Villette 2018. Anat au saxophone ténor et à la clarinette, Avishai à la trompette et Yuval au sax soprano, “The...
Posted Sep 13th, 2018
From All About Jazz Anat Cohen: Musical Zelig By: R.J. Deluke Since arriving on the New York City scene in 1999, via Tel Aviv and the Berklee College of Music, Anat Cohen has exhibited qualities in music where one wonders where she is going to be next’“musically’“and what group of musicians she will be associated with. She plays Brazilian music...
Posted Jun 21st, 2018
From All About Jazz Burlington Discover Jazz Festival 2018 By: Doug Collette Anat Cohen & Choro Adventuruso FlynnSpace June 9, 2018 Whatever context in which she plays, the innate gaiety of Anat Cohen’s clarinet playing comes through as a direct reflection of her ebullient personality, no more so perhaps than in the breezy but steadily rhythmic strains of the Brazilian...
Posted Jun 18th, 2018
From The Burlington Free Press A talk with Discover Jazz musician Anat Cohen By: Brent Hallenbeck Watch the interview below: Watch on site here
Posted Jun 9th, 2018
From Ottawa Citizen Two daring duos (Frank Carlberg/Noah Preminger, Anat Cohen/Fred Hersch CDs reviewed) By: Peter Hum Live in Healdsburg (Anzic Records) Anat Cohen and Fred Hersch Whispers and Cries (Red Piano Records) Frank Carlberg and Noah Preminger If you want to hear brilliant cases for staying focused on the basics of jazz, then you could not do any better...
Posted May 9th, 2018
From Downbeat Editor’s Picks: Anat Cohen & Fred Hersch Live In Healdsburg By: Frank Alkyer Anat Cohen and Fred Hersch are two of the world’s finest improvising artists’“tasteful, thoughtful and fluid musicians who follow their muses while creating breathtaking music. […] With Hersch on piano and Cohen on clarinet, this is an intimate album that invites the listener in on...
Posted May 1st, 2018
From KC Metropolis Brazilian jazz in Lawrence By: Jessie Riggins Cohen took the stage with a simple, ‘Hi. Let’s play some music,’ and the night was underway. The first number, the well-known ‘Cry Me a River,’ was rich and soulful, and an animated Cohen was joyful to watch as she danced around the stage. […] Guitar player Alex Frank and...
Posted Apr 13th, 2018
From Jazz History Online Dynamics of the Duo By: Thomas Cunniffe One of the annual highlights of New York jazz is pianist Fred Hersch’s series of duet concerts. Clarinetist Anat Cohen has been one of Hersch’s longtime duet partners, and while their new album ‘Live in Healdsburg’ (Anzic 61) was recorded in California, its artistic success certainly stems from all...
Posted Mar 19th, 2018
From JazzdaGama.com Anat Cohen | Fred Hersch: Live in Healdsburg By: Raul da Gama “It’s not as if a duet between piano and clarinet has not been done before. […] But now Anat Cohen and Fred Hersch have moved that very bar impossibly higher with their own Live in Healdsburg. Each artist, worshiping at the altar of originality, has taken...
Posted Mar 15th, 2018
From AllAboutJazz.com The Art Of The Duo: Keys And Reeds By: Geno Thackara What’s taken these two so long? […] What’s surprising is the astounding degree of chemistry they strike from the start. The mid-2016 festival set captured on Live in Healdsburg seems to have been one of their earliest outings in this format, but taking in their near-telepathic rapport,...
Posted Mar 12th, 2018
From France Musique – Alex Dutilh’s ‘Open Jazz’ L’actualité du jazz : Anat Cohen et Fred Hersch, grand cru californien La clarinettiste israÓlienne Anat Cohen et le pianiste américain Fred Hersch, deux des artistes les plus prolifiques du jazz d’aujourd’hui, tous deux souvent nominés aux Grammy Awards 2018, font paraître leur premier album en duo “ Live in Healdsburg “...
Posted Mar 7th, 2018
From WBGO.org Hear New Tracks by Jeremy Pelt, Anat Cohen with Fred Hersch and More, in Take Five By: Nate Chinen Anat Cohen & Fred Hersch, ‘Child’s Song’ The generous, companionable rapport between multi-reedist Anat Cohen and pianist Fred Hersch has been well documented on the bandstand, but not previously on record. In that sense Live in Healdsburg, an album...
Posted Mar 5th, 2018
By: O Globo Clarinetista israelense apaixonada por choro concorre ao Grammy com dois álbuns ‘brasileiros’ By: Silvio Essinger Anat Cohen, clarinetista de 38 anos, cresceu em Tel Aviv ouvindo todo o tipo de música. Entre os LPs da coleção da família, estava um, digamos, curioso: ‘País tropical’ (1978), no qual o cantor Matti Caspi verteu para o hebraico canções da...
Posted Jan 22nd, 2018
From NPR How Benny Goodman Orchestrated ‘The Most Important Concert In Jazz History’ By: Tom Vitale By 1938, clarinetist Benny Goodman was already known as “The King of Swing” ‘” the leader of the most popular dance band in America at a time when swing jazz was America’s most popular music. But nobody knew how it would be received in...
Posted Jan 15th, 2018
From Jazz Police The Clarinet Emerges from the Past in a Stunning Concert at SFJAZZ By: Ken Vermes […] The exciting part of the emergence of Anat through this show is that she is demonstrating she is a ‘HOT’ jazz player, in the classic sense. As you might remember, in the days when swing music was a style, even after...
Posted Jan 10th, 2018
From Paste Magazine The Curmudgeon: Music for an Empire in Decline By: Geoffrey Himes ‘Last year was a son of a bitch for nearly everyone we know,’ Jason Isbell sings on ‘Hope the High Road,’ from one of 2017’s best albums, The Nashville Sound. If 2016 was a hard pill to swallow, 2017 was more bitter still. It was a...
Posted Jan 2nd, 2018
From the Grammy Awards 2018 GRAMMYs: 9 Things To Know About The Jazz Field Nominees By: Tim McPhate Drawing first-time nominations are Brazilian Antonio Adolfo ( Hybrido ‘” From Rio To Wayne Shorter ), clarinet/guitar duo Anat Cohen & Marcello Gonçalves ( Outra Cosa ‘” The Music Of Moacir Santos ) and Pablo Ziegler Trio ( Jazz Tango ), who...
Posted Dec 15th, 2017
From The Chicago Tribune Iyer, Zenon, Cohen Among Best Jazz Recordings By: Howard Reich Among the best jazz recordings of 2017: Anat Cohen Tentet: ‘Happy Song’ (Anzic Records). Clarinetist Cohen released three recordings in 2017, each worthy of inclusion on any list of the year’s best jazz recordings. But ‘Happy Song’ stands as the most expansive, for it represents a...
Posted Dec 11th, 2017
From All About Jazz Anat Cohen Tentet at SFJAZZ By: Harry S. Pariser An evening with clarinetist extraordinaire Anat Cohen is an unforgettable experience. Residents of San Francisco were fortunate to see Cohen and her Tentet at SFJAZZ on a cool Sunday evening. A native of Tel Aviv, the 38-year-old Cohen studied at Berklee School of Music in Boston before...
Posted Dec 4th, 2017
From Recording Academy (grammy.com) 60th GRAMMY Awards: Full Nominees List Congratulations to this year’s Grammy Award nominees! Most especially to those from the IMN family: Jazz vocal album: A Social Call ‘” Jazzmeia Horn Jazz instrumental album: The Dreamer Is the Dream ‘” Chris Potter Latin jazz album: Outra Coisa ‘” The Music of Moacir Santos ‘” Anat Cohen &...
Posted Nov 28th, 2017
From London Jazz News CD REVIEW: Anat Cohen Tentet – Happy Song By: Mike Collins Anat Cohen is a firmly established international phenomenon on clarinet. She’s achieved the remarkable feat of topping the Downbeat critics’ poll for her instrument every year since 2011 and this release exploits the resources of a large ensemble giving rocket boosters to an eclectic mix...
Posted Nov 6th, 2017
From DownBeat 2017 DownBeat Readers Poll Winners Congrats to IMN artists Anat Cohen (Clarinet), Jack DeJohnette (Drums), Chris Potter (Saxophone), and Regina Carter (Violin) for winning the 2017 DownBeat Readers Poll.
Posted Oct 24th, 2017
From All About Jazz Anat Cohen: Rosa Dos Ventos and Outra Coisa By: Angelo Leonardi Again this year Anat Cohen was first clarinetist in the critics poll of Down Beat and these new albums contribute to explaining the reasons. Brazilian music has been in the heart of Anat for twenty years: it has played with their greatest artists and knows...
Posted Oct 23rd, 2017
From Chicago Tribune Anat Cohen Celebrates ‘Happy Song’ On A Grand Scale By: Howard Reich Clarinetist Anat Cohen has performed often in Chicago through the years, but never in as plush an instrumental setting as she led Saturday night at the University of Chicago’s Logan Center for the Arts. Celebrating her new album, ‘Happy Song,’ which was released the day...
Posted Oct 9th, 2017
From Chicago Tribune Anat Cohen streches out with ‘Happy Song’ By: Howard Reich The exceptional clarinetist Anat Cohen has spanned many genres in concert and on recordings, but never has she covered so much ground so cohesively as on her beguiling new recording, ‘Happy Song.’ Classic American swing, Brazilian dance rhythm, Eastern European klezmer, Malian folkloric music and other idioms...
Posted Oct 5th, 2017
From Chicago Tribune From Vijay Iyer to Anat Cohen, promising new releases By: Howard Reich Recordings of great interest for the fall season: Anat Cohen Tentet, ‘Happy Song’ (Oct. 6). The inimitable clarinetist-saxophonist explores new instrumental colors. To read more click here
Posted Sep 7th, 2017
From WBGO Take Five: New Music From the Vijay Iyer Sextet, the Anat Cohen Tentet, Matt Wilson and More By: Nate Chinen Anat Cohen Tentet, ‘Happy Song’ We last heard from multireedist Anat Cohen just a few month back, when she released two albums in a Brazilian vein. She’s now announcing Happy Song, an album by her radiant tentet. In...
Posted Aug 22nd, 2017
From Vancouver Sun Music reviews: Anat Cohen – Outra Coisa: The Music of Moacir Santos (with Marcello Gonçalves) & Rosa Dos Ventos (with Trio Brasileiro) By: Stuart Derdeyn Just in time for caipirinhas on the beach season, Israeli clarinet virtuoso Anat Cohen drops two marvellous recordings of Brazilian music. Outra Coisa is a sublime collection of of a dozen duets...
Posted Jul 11th, 2017
From Downbeat 65th ANNUAL DOWNBEAT CRITICS POLL WINNERS Here are the IMN artists featured as 2017 Downbeat Critics Poll Winners. Clarinet: Anat Cohen Violin: Regina Carter Drums: Jack DeJohnette To read more click here
Posted Jun 27th, 2017
From Premio da Musica Brasileira Those Nominated For The 28th Brazilian Music Awards Were Released Anat Cohen and Marcello Goncalves have been nominated for best Intrumental Album for their album, Outra Coisa. To read more click here
Posted Jun 20th, 2017
From DownBeat Magazine, July 2017 Anat Cohen – Perfect Accent By: Allen Morrison The ‘great room’ of clarinetist Anat Cohen’s ultra-modern Brooklyn loft apartment has many luxurious attributes’“high ceilings, open kitchen, a gleaming black Steinway grand piano and a treasured view of the East River’“but the most striking feature is an oil painting that adorns one wall. The painting, by...
Posted Jun 15th, 2017
From World Music Report Anat Cohen: Música da Paz e Alegria By: Raul da Gama Anat Cohen Presents Two New Albums: ‘Rosa Dos Ventos’ and ‘Outra Coisa’ (The Music of Moacir Santos) Montanha, Cristiano Alves, Nailor Proveta, Buosi and Burgani; Brasilian clarinetists have embraced samba, choro and classical music, and in Proveta’s case, he bring his own Brasilian sensibility to...
Posted May 19th, 2017
From KNKX Public Radio Anat Cohen And Trio Brasileiro: For The Love Of Choro By: Robin Lloyd For her third appearance in the KNKX studios, Anat Cohen brought along Trio Brasileiro, the group that presents the very popular spring choro workshops at Centrum in Port Townsend. Brazilian choro music is a cousin of jazz, mixing European melodic and harmonic traditions...
Posted May 18th, 2017
From The Irish Times Anat Cohen & Trio Brasileiro – Rosa Dos Ventos review: clear-toned, liquid playing, joyous groove By: Cormac Larkin Rosa Dos Ventos ‘” Portuguese for ‘weather vane’ ‘” is one of two simultaneous releases on the Anzic label from Anat Cohen, documenting the Isreali-born, New York-resident clarinetist’s long-standing love affair with Brazil and its music. (The other,...
Posted May 11th, 2017
From WBGO Take Five: Bria Skonberg, Avishai Cohen, Diego Barber, Anat Cohen, Chad Lefkowitz-Brown By: Nate Chinen Anat Cohen, ‘Baião Da Esperança’ Here’s another track by a Cohen ‘” one of the 3 Cohens, as a matter of fact. Anat is the clarinetist in the family, a sparkplug who has proven herself especially adept with Brazilian rhythm. ‘Baião Da Esperança’...
Posted May 11th, 2017
From The Chicago Tribune Clarinetist Anat Cohen revels in the sounds of Brazil By: Howard Reich The most joyous moments of last year’s Chicago Jazz Festival came from the clarinet of Anat Cohen, whose soaring melodic lines and seemingly effortless virtuosity inspired robust ovations at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. When Cohen returns to Chicago on Monday evening, she’ll...
Posted May 10th, 2017
From Metroactive Copacabana Clarinet: Anat Cohen at Cafe Stritch By: Nick Veronin GIRL FROM IPANEMA: Anat Cohen is actually from Tel Aviv. But lately, she’s been enchanted by the choro music of Rio. Acclaimed jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen has always connected with Brazilian music, though it took moving across an ocean for her to realize it. ‘I heard it growing...
Posted May 10th, 2017
From Downbeat Magazine Rosa Dos Ventos – Anat Cohen & Trio Brasileiro By: Bobby Reed Anat Cohen who topped the Clarinet category in both the DownBeat Critics Poll and Readers Poll last year, continues her deep, informed exploration og Brazilian music with the new album Rosa Dos Ventos, a collaboration with Trio Brasileiro. To read more click here
Posted May 1st, 2017
Anat has officially release two new albums: Outra Coisa & Rosa Dos Ventos. Rosa Dos Ventos by Anat Cohen and Trio Brasileiro In April 2017, Clarinet superstar Anat Cohen released two albums which celebrate and examine her connection to Brazil and its music. On Rosa Dos Ventos, Cohen joins forces with cutting edge Brazilian ensemble “Trio Brasileiro” to explore Brazil’s...
Posted Apr 28th, 2017
From NY Observer The Best In Jazz By: Ron Hart Anat Cohen and Trio Brasileiro, The Jazz Standard, May 16-17 Not since the heyday of Jimmy Guiffre has there been a clarinet player whose redefined the instrument’s role in jazz like Israel’s Anat Cohen. Cohen just released a pair of works that delve deep into her love for Brazilian music....
Posted Apr 25th, 2017
From All About Jazz Anat Cohen’s Brazilian Bonanza: Outra Coisa And Rosa Dos Ventos By: Dan Bilawsky It’s not exactly a secret that Anat Cohen is smitten with the music of Brazil. Her clarinet is a key voice on the Choro Ensemble’s albums, she’s peppered her own dates with the work of Milton Nascimento, Chico Buarque, Luiz Bonfa, and Hermeto...
Posted Apr 17th, 2017
From Fox 17 West Michigan Famed jazz musician Anat Cohen performing with local high school jazz bands By: Lindsay Hoffman World famous clarinetist and saxophonist, Anat Cohen, will be performing live in Grand Rapids Wednesday night. Thanks to the Michigan State University Federal Credit Union donating $1 million to the MSU Jazz Department, the school can bring world class jazz...
Posted Feb 8th, 2017
From The Detroit News Clarinetist Anat Cohen kicks off a week in Michigan By: Susan Whitall Anat Cohen knows that her instrument, the clarinet, doesn’t always get the respect it deserves. Earlier generations of musicians picked up the clarinet because they loved the sly, swinging way Benny Goodman played it, or because of the syncopated New Orleans style of players...
Posted Feb 3rd, 2017
From The Chicago Tribune Chicago Jazz Fest review: Anat Cohen, Bad Plus lead an exuberant weekend By: Howard Reich Pure joy. How else to describe the sound issuing from Anat Cohen’s clarinet Saturday night at the 38th annual Chicago Jazz Festival? Playing the penultimate set of the evening in the Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park, Cohen summed up everything that’s...
Posted Sep 6th, 2016
From KPLU By KPLU Getting Together: Anat Cohen and Fred Hersch When Anat Cohen returned to the KPLU studios this spring, the bright young star of the clarinet was joined by a piano great who’s been looking back on a fantastic career. Live in our studios, the two friends were intently focused on the moment at hand. The pair talked...
Posted Jul 21st, 2016
from nbcsandiego.com Duet to It: Fred Hersch and Anat Cohen’s breathtaking exchange There is something about the duet concept that creates a possibility for magic to happen. It can be more demanding and rewarding for both audience and performer, but when it works — like when pianist Fred Hersch and clarinetist Anat Cohen graced the stage at the Athenaeum Music...
Posted Jun 13th, 2016
from jazzpolice.com Fred Hersch and Anat Cohen at Jazz Standard, 5/13/16 For the past ten years, virtuosic composer/pianist Fred Hersch has held a Duos Residency at Jazz Standard in May ‘” for each of seven nights, he meshes musical chops with a different duo partner. In the midst of duos week, he paired up with a recent collaborator, clarinetist Anat...
Posted May 25th, 2016
From downbeat.com Anat Cohen Tentet Brings Retro Sound and Ebullient Spirit to Jazz Standard By: Ken Micallef Listening to clarinetist Anat Cohen and her new tentet perform original material at the Jazz Standard on April 19 was like being a guest at a secret soiree, where the sense of fun is contagious and swing is seriously the thing. To read...
Posted Apr 27th, 2016
From sverigesradio.se Den ekvilibristiska Anat Cohen To listen to performance click here
Posted Mar 18th, 2016
From theepochtimes.com Immigrants: A Blessing to Our American Music By Barry Bassis “I could easily write a book about Israeli jazz musicians or at least a chapter on The Three Cohens, two brothers and a sister from Tel Aviv, who have achieved stardom together and separately. Anat Cohen has been leading Downbeat polls as the top clarinet player for years,...
Posted Feb 7th, 2016
From The Huffington Post Anat Cohen Swings in the New Year on Toast of the Nation By Penny Schwartz Boston – In a New Year’s Eve encore of a not-to-be-missed performance, master reed player Anat Cohen kicks off 2016 on National Public Radio’s Toast of the Nation, a musical celebration featuring jazz giants from across the country. In addition to...
Posted Dec 29th, 2015
From mlive.com Anat Cohen explains why jazz clarinet doesn’t get respect that it should By Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk “‘What a lot of people associate it with is squeaking,’ she said with a laugh. ‘We still have to overcome the notion that clarinet squeaks. ‘People need to remember what a beautiful instrument it is, including in popular music,’ she added. Back in...
Posted Dec 10th, 2015
From Idaho Statesman Best jazz recordings of 2015: Cohen, Mahanthappa, Schneider By: Howard Reich The inventiveness of today’s jazz musicians – young and old – never ceases to amaze. This year’s best jazz recordings prove the point: Anat Cohen, “Luminosa” (Anzic Records): The joy, intelligence and tonal beauty of Cohen’s work on clarinet (mostly) and tenor saxophone (occasionally) stand among...
Posted Dec 7th, 2015
from kplu.org Clarinetist (and sometime saxophonist) Anat Cohen is a one-woman music-blender. Born and raised in Tel Aviv and now living in New York, Anat lays out a world of influences in almost every song she plays. Jazz, classical, klezmer, tango, Brazilian ‘” whatever style or genre of music you can think of, you’ll hear at least echoes of it...
Posted Nov 30th, 2015
From KPLU Anat Cohen – Flat-Out Brilliant By: KPLU Clarinetist (and sometime saxophonist) Anat Cohen is a one-woman music-blender. Born and raised in Tel Aviv and now living in New York, Anat lays out a world of influences in almost every song she plays. Jazz, classical, klezmer, tango, Brazilian ‘” whatever style or genre of music you can think of,...
Posted Nov 25th, 2015
From rivergrandrapids.com Acclaimed Jazz Musician Anat Cohen at St. Cecelia December 10 By Andy Rent “Featured on more than 21 albums, Cohen released her seventh record as a bandleader earlier this year on her label Anzic Records entitled Luminosa. Luminosa features Cohen playing singing/dancing originals, Brazilian classics by the likes of Milton Nascimento, and even re-imagining electronica as acoustica with...
Posted Nov 17th, 2015
From jazzpolice.com SFJAZZ Presents “Sacred Space: Celebrating the Clarinet” at Grace Cathedral By Ken Wermes “On November 12, SFJAZZ presented a performance as a part of its long-standing series at Grace Cathedral, on top of Nob Hill in San Francisco. This series of performances, in co-operation with the cathedral staff, offers musicians a unique opportunity to present music of an...
Posted Nov 15th, 2015
From chicagotribune.com Music Institute celebrates women in jazz By Myrna Petlicki ““This year we decided to celebrate women in jazz with three red hot concerts ‘” Anat Cohen, Tammy McCann and Dee Dee Bridgewater,” said President and CEO Mark George. “As long as jazz has existed, there was tremendous amounts of discrimination against female jazz players. But in the present...
Posted Nov 12th, 2015
From columbiaspectator.com Israeli Afro-Latin jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen on recent album and more ahead of ‘Celebrando Brasil’ Miller Theatre concert By Nicholas Cho “Few musicians capture the global essence of jazz like Anat Cohen. After moving from Tel Aviv, Israel to Boston, Mass. to study at Berklee College of Music, clarinetist Anat Cohen developed an ear and a fluency in...
Posted Nov 6th, 2015
From kplu.org Earshot Jazz Festival Preview: Anat Cohen’s Joyful Clarinet By Robin Lloyd “Clarinetist Anat Cohen’s transcendent appearances with the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra last February are still resonating. ‘I loved the trip to Seattle, loved meeting all the people there, the SRJO and other musicians. It was great time, and a wonderful hang,’ she said. ‘Everybody there is so...
Posted Nov 4th, 2015
From jazztimes.com Review: South Africa’s Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Festival By Christopher Loudon “Moving from the disappointing to the sublime, the Cohen clan’“tenor saxophonist and clarinetist Anat, soprano saxophonist Yuval and trumpeter Avishai, teamed with pianist Yonathan Avishai, bassist Matt Penman and drummer Ulysses Owens Jr.’“shaped the tightest, smartest, most satisfying set of the entire festival. Highlights: a dark,...
Posted Oct 7th, 2015
Cohen says, “There’s nothing better than when everything clicks and you’re inside the magic of music. You know you’re doing something for your own soul and you can touch some other souls. You’re creating something that is positive. And adding positive energy into the world, this is the rewarding part of being a musician.” To read the full article click...
Posted Jul 22nd, 2015
Anat Cohen’s music is out of this world. And that’s exactly where she wants to be. When she’s playing clarinet or saxophone with her quartet, everything else melts away. “Actually, it’s my preferred state, if I may be honest, to be lost inside the music on stage,” the Tel Aviv-born, New York-based artist says. “You go into like a different...
Posted Jul 20th, 2015
“A primera hora, Anat Cohen se ha presentado con la brillantez de su clarinete por delante, y tres músicos más en escena. Piano, contrabajo y batería (Jeff Ballard de nuevo, como ayer con Brad Mehldau) han sido el complemento para un estilo que ha comenzado muy jazz, para, poco a poco, ir reconociendo otros orígenes. Tenía que ser así tratándose...
Posted Jul 18th, 2015
“Anat Cohen didn’t know it at the time, but as an aspiring jazz musician growing up in Tel Aviv in the late 1980s, she absorbed a global assortment of sounds. Between immigrants from South America and Israeli musicians who spent time abroad and then returned home to share the styles they studied, she picked up an array of Latin American...
Posted Jul 15th, 2015
From NPR Music Songs We Love: Anat Cohen, ‘Putty Boy Strut’ By: Patrick Jarenwattananon It begins with meandering clarinet and clipped, four-on-the-floor percussion. A little bit later comes a countermelody, and the image that comes to mind is something from early New Orleans, or perhaps a Mediterranean folk song. It’s even called “Putty Boy Strut” ‘” that could be an...
Posted May 14th, 2015
From The Tribune-Review Cohen’s latest shows ongoing artistic growth By: Bob Karlovits ‘LUMINOSA’ Anat Cohen (Anzic) ‘Luminosa’ takes on as many musical sounds as it varies its musicians. Playing in basically a quartet, Anat Cohen offers work on clarinet, bass clarinet and tenor saxophone. But that group is joined by one of two guitarists on five of the 11 tracks,...
Posted Apr 25th, 2015
From ASCAP ASCAP Audio Portrait: Anat Cohen’s Luminosa Clarinetist and saxophonist Anat Cohen brings her musical worlds together on her seventh album, Luminosa. The Israeli virtuoso instrumentalist and bandleader draws on her love of jazz, Brazilian classics and Choro, and electronica to create an album that is filled with warm, rich original compositions and inventive covers. Cohen has topped Downbeat’s...
Posted Apr 20th, 2015
from jazzdagama.com Anat Cohen: Luminosa By Raul de Gama When, if ever, have you heard the clarinet played as magically as this; the pure music of the instrument given as naturally as breathing, yet recreated from an entirely novel perspective? When have you seen fingerwork as scintillating and heard the breathing as inspired’“short, perfunctory and declarative, and rhetorical gasps alternating...
Posted Apr 13th, 2015
From NPR Review: Anat Cohen, ‘Luminosa’ By Melissa Block Jazz musicians don’t get much more global than Anat Cohen, an Israeli who’s known for playing Brazilian improvisation in the United States. She plays an instrument that’s no longer common in jazz, the clarinet. Michelle Mercer has this review of Cohen’s new album, “Luminosa.” MICHELLE MERCER, BYLINE: The last time the...
Posted Apr 13th, 2015
From TwinCities.com Review: Anat Cohen brings clarinet into modern era with flair By Dan Emerson Anyone who might consider the clarinet an outdated instrument with no place in modern jazz should hear Anat Cohen, who performed at the Dakota jazz club Sunday night. Cohen, who was born and raised in Israel but now lives in New York, has been credited...
Posted Apr 13th, 2015
From Downbeat Anat Cohen, Luminosa By Frank Alkyer Clarinetist Anat Cohen has always been a world musician, bringing sounds from around the globe into her style of jazz. On Luminosa, she expands on these eclectic musical passions to deliver a beautiful, 11-tune album. Cohen sets the scene with her touring band’“Jason Lindner on keyboards, Joe Martin on bass and Daniel...
Posted Apr 8th, 2015
From The Chicago Tribune From Brazilian to avant-garde, brilliant new jazz albums By: Howard Reich The next wave of important jazz recordings shows musicians experimenting with new forms and revivifying old ones. Among the highlights: Anat Cohen: “Luminosa” (Anzic Records). During the past few years, Cohen has emerged as a singular voice on clarinet, the disarming lyricism of her playing...
Posted Mar 10th, 2015
Delaware County News Network Anat Cohen Quartet brings luminosity to Longwood Gardens By: Marianne Gunther When guests began to arrive at Longwood Gardens in the early evening this past Saturday, the site was getting ready for closing to the general public, but not for people holding tickets for the Gardens’ Jazz Series, where theAnat Cohen Quartet was set to perform...
Posted Mar 5th, 2015
From The New Yorker Anat Cohen The clarinet may never reassume its place in the forefront of jazz, but it won’t be for any lack of trying on Cohen’s part. This Israeli-born stylist is also a fine saxophonist, but her skillful clarinet excursions run through a wide variety of styles, including post-bop, New Orleans jazz, Brazilian music, klezmer, and Middle...
Posted Mar 4th, 2015
observer.com Passion Play: Anat Cohen Combines an Exuberant Persona With a Soulful Sound By: Matthew Kassel When she’s onstage, Anat Cohen likes to dance and snap her fingers while bantering with the audience and shouting approvingly at her bandmates. You get the sense she’s trying not to take things too seriously’“until, that is, she brings her instrument to her lips...
Posted Mar 3rd, 2015
From timesunion.com Review: Bridge Jazz Festival @ Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, 2/27/15 By: Greg Haymes TROY ‘” ‘That’s the thing about jazz,’ Marcus Roberts explained as he settled in on the piano bench in the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall on Friday night. ‘There’s room for everybody’s personality and perspective.’ And certainly the opening night of the inaugural Bridge...
Posted Feb 28th, 2015
From The Seattle Times Anat Cohen brings reed genius to Seattle big band By: Paul de Barros Local jazz fans have been enthusiastically declaring Israeli reed whiz Anat Cohen’s concerts this past weekend with the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra (SRJO) the best shows in the 20-year-old big band’s history. Hmm. Past SRJO performances with Clark Terry, who died Saturday, and...
Posted Feb 23rd, 2015
From The Seattle Times Anat Cohen, Pharaoh Sanders, Christian McBride: a jazz convergence By Paul de Barros Three exceptionally strong jazz acts hit Seattle this week ‘” clarinetist/saxophonist Anat Cohen, performing with the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra (SRJO); veteran saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders, with an all-star band that includes drummer Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts, guitarist Stanley Jordan and bassist Charnett Moffett; and...
Posted Feb 20th, 2015
From zealnyc.com Luminous Anat Cohen Debuts Her New Album at Jazz Standard Born in Tel Aviv, Israel and based in New York, Anat Cohen stands prominently as one of today’s jazz’s top go-to performers who has appeared as a frequent bandstand collaborator with Newport Jazz Festival impresario George Wein as well as playing/recording in an ensemble with her brothers (older...
Posted Feb 20th, 2015
From The Seattle Times Anat Cohen, Pharaoh Sanders, Christian McBride: a jazz convergence By: Paul de Barros Three exceptionally strong jazz acts hit Seattle this week ‘” clarinetist/saxophonist Anat Cohen, performing with the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra (SRJO); veteran saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders, with an all-star band that includes drummer Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts, guitarist Stanley Jordan and bassist Charnett Moffett; and...
Posted Feb 19th, 2015
From il manifesto Umbria jazz winter, la formula è vincente ma ora si deve cambiare By: Luigi Onori Festival. Chiusa la ventitreesima edizione della kermesse musicale. Tra omaggi a Sellani e i medley dei Doctor 3, spicca l’agile pianista Jon Batiste e la rilettura di Coltrane da parte di Joe Lovano Top Jazz ovvero la serata per i vincitori del...
Posted Jan 2nd, 2015
From PRX New Jazz Archives on Anat Cohen By: Jeff Haas This week, it’s stories and sounds from jazz’s history overseas. We’ll talk with Israeli saxophonist Anat Cohen about why Israel is becoming a hotbed for new jazz talent, and take a look at the nearly hundred-year-old history of jazz in Japan. And we’ll hear the story of how the...
Posted Oct 21st, 2014
From City Newspaper By: Ron Netsky Jazz Fest, Final Night: Ron reviews Newport Jazz Festival All Stars, Stephanie Trick, and Scott Feiner & Pandeiro Jazz Imagine Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Spider-Man all working together. That’s what it was like when the Newport Jazz Festival All Stars took the stage to celebrate the great festival’s 60th anniversary at Kilbourn Hall...
Posted Jun 29th, 2014
From Ottawa Citizen By: Peter Hum Jazzfest review: Newport Jazz Festival: Now 60 The all-star septet billed as Newport Jazz Festival: Now 60 provided a feel-good jazz experience for a TD Ottawa Jazz Festival crowd on Friday night. Like the SFJAZZ Collective out of San Francisco, and the Monterey Quartet of a few years ago, the Newport group is a...
Posted Jun 25th, 2014
from jpost.com Three cool cats make up the Cohen jazz trifecta By: Barry Davis Members of bands that stay in business for a long time ‘” and they are generally few and far between ‘” often talk about having a sense of kinship. That includes the squabbles as well as the closeness and the shared creative nous. Jazz trumpeter Avishai...
Posted Jun 11th, 2014
from lansingcitypulse.com Multi-grain jazz Newport tour kneads diverse group of stars into one hot loaf By: Lawrence Cosentino Detroit-born jazzman Clarence Penn savored an afternoon of solitary bread baking last week. Drummers don’t often get to cook alone. ‘If you could smell my house right now, it’s killing,’ he said. ‘I know what’s in it. No weird chemicals. Three or...
Posted Mar 27th, 2014
from southbendtribune.com Group has the cred to fly Newport banner By: Jack Walton For most of us here in the Midwest, the Newport Jazz Festival is a phenomenon that exists in our record collections rather than in our vacation plans. The posh seaside setting in Rhode Island has provided a backdrop for some incredible performances over the past six decades,...
Posted Mar 20th, 2014
from kansascity.com An all-star bill brings Newport jazz to Kansas City By: Joe Klopus Rhode Island’s Newport Jazz Festival has made lots of history in its 60 tumultuous years. It’s the site of musical milestones and great performances, as heard on live albums by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane and Billie Holiday. There have been...
Posted Mar 19th, 2014
from triblive.com Newport festival tribute delightfully lacks surprises By: Bob Karlovits With a lineup that includes trumpeter Randy Brecker and singer Karrin Allyson, it was no surprise the Newport: Now 60 show at the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild was more than simply a tribute. It also was a concert filled with a similar ‘” and delightful ‘” lack of surprises. It...
Posted Feb 10th, 2014
from post-gazette.com Concerts celebrate Newport Jazz Festival By: Rick Nowlin It may be hard to believe, but the iconic Newport Jazz Festival is turning 60 this year. To celebrate, some of jazz’s most renowned performers are coming to the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild Jazz Concert Hall Saturday. The band comprises trumpeter Randy Brecker, tenor saxophonist/clarinetist Anat Cohen, guitarist Mark Whitfield, bassist...
Posted Feb 9th, 2014
from bostonglobe.com All-star ensemble signals a forward-thinking Newport Jazz Festival By: Jon Garelick How do you keep a 60-year-old summer music festival up, running, and vital? Well, one way is to run a promotional anniversary tour in February. At least, that’s what the Newport Jazz Festival is doing. The festival’s producers have mounted a 21-date tour with a band of...
Posted Feb 7th, 2014
from artery.wbur.org Newport Jazz Festival Founder Brings The Sounds Of Summer To Boston By: Claire Dickson Sixty years ago George Wein changed the way live music is experienced. He founded the Newport Jazz Festival, the first American jazz festival. At 87, Wein continues to produce the festival and this year he’s set up an all-star group as a preview of...
Posted Feb 5th, 2014
from chicagotribune.com Anat Cohen to headline NIU’s Feb. 1 Clarinet Cornucopia By: P. Palian Advance purchase tickets are now available for an on-campus performance by world-renowned jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen, scheduled for 1:15 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1 Known for her expressive virtuosity and delightful stage presence, Cohen and her band perform on the Concert Hall stage in the NIU Music...
Posted Jan 16th, 2014
from jja.camp8.org The Jazz Journalist Association released their best of 2013 list last week and the 3 Cohens latest release Tightrope was ranked at number 2. To read the full list click here
Posted Dec 11th, 2013
from chicagomaroon.com ‘Brazilian rhythm and a laid-back New York groove’ at Logan By: Robert Sorrell The Anat Cohen Quartet exploded on stage at the Logan Center last Sunday, continuing the Jazz at the Logan series with selections from Cohen’s most recent recording, Claroscuro. Cohen, a clarinet virtuoso who was voted Clarinetist of the Year six times in a row by...
Posted Nov 26th, 2013
from winnipegfreepress.com Tightrope (Anzic Records) By: Chris Smith THE 3 Cohens are many things: improvisers, composers, great musicians and figurative tightrope walkers. Siblings Anat (tenor saxophone, clarinets), Avishai (trumpet) and Yuval (soprano sax) play mostly a cappella on Tightrope, their fourth recording. The three have uncanny musical rapport, and their emphasis on horns-only music and improvisation here cements the chemistry...
Posted Nov 10th, 2013
Anat Cohen was featured on Stefano Bollani’s television program “Supports Bollani”(RAI TV, Italy) Sunday evening. Anat’s first performance begins at 22:31
Posted Oct 22nd, 2013
from ajwnews.com 3 Cohens are back again with their horns By: Mordecai Specktor The 3 Cohens – Anat, Yuval and Avishai – play their horns (saxophones, clarinet and trumpet) unaccompanied on most of the 18 tracks that comprise their new album, Tightrope (Anzic). The siblings from Tel Aviv, who play together and with various other ensembles, have developed a sort...
Posted Oct 20th, 2013
from jstandard.com Anat Cohen plays Rockland By: Abigail Klein Leichman ‘I always try to surround myself with music and be part of as many projects as I can,’ says award-winning Israeli jazz clarinetist and saxophonist Anat Cohen. She and her eponymous quartet will headline the annual Chazen Jazz Concert at Rockland Community College’s Cultural Arts Center on October 26 at...
Posted Oct 18th, 2013
_ from allaboutjazz.com_ 3 Cohens: Tightrope (2013) By: Dan Bilawsky It shouldn’t come as a shock that the 3 Cohens stress the idea of interconnectedness in their music; soprano saxophonist Yuval Cohen, multi-reedist Anat Cohen and trumpeter Avishai Cohen are, after all, blood. With albums like One (Anzic, 2004), Braid (Anzic, 2007) and Family (Anzic, 2011), these three horn-playing siblings...
Posted Oct 17th, 2013
from chicagotribune.com Clarinetist Anat Cohen and guitarist Douglas Lora perform during the Hyde Park Jazz Festival at the Rockefeller Chapel on the University of Chicago campus Saturday By: Howard Reich Anat Cohen and Douglas Lora Duo at the University of Chicago’s Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. Every great jazz festival needs a world premiere, and the Hyde Park gathering has an unforgettable...
Posted Sep 30th, 2013
from allaboutjazz.com Anat Cohen & Choro Aventuroso Feat. Leni Andrade at 54 Below By: Ernest Barteldes The quartet. led by Anat Cohen, kicked off its early set with a selection of classic Brazilian choros that were enhanced by the individual talents of the Israeli reeds player’s pan-Brazilian quartet, which featured accordion, acoustic seven-string guitar and pandeiro. The group’s chemistry was...
Posted Sep 3rd, 2013
from online.wsj.com The Beat That Puts Even Bossa Nova to Shame By: Will Friedwald Compared with choro, which exploded in Brazil in the early 20th century, the bossa nova seems monotonous and anticlimactic. This quartet features three Brazilians: accordionist Vitor Gonçalves, Cesar Garabini on the Brazilian guitar, which features an ultralow seventh string to allow it to fill the roles...
Posted Aug 23rd, 2013
from nydailynews.com Weekend Jazz best bets: Anat Cohen’s Choro clarinet at 54 Below and the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival at Marcus Garvey Park By: Wayne Lockwood It’s hard to believe, watching Anat Cohen move so gracefully on clarinet with a hot group of Brazilian players, that about 15 years ago she hadn’t encountered Choro, the music she loves so much....
Posted Aug 23rd, 2013
from blogs.forward.com Anat Cohen: Hot at 54 Below By: Masha Leon Israel-born clarinetist assoluta Anat Cohen accompanied by the Choro Aventuroso ensemble ‘” Victor Goncalves accordion, Cesar Garabini on a 7-string guitar and Serginho on the Pandeiro, a large tambourine producing sounds I’d never heard ‘” dazzled the August 22 crowd at Broadway’s 54 Below Club. Cohen ‘” voted ‘clarinetist...
Posted Aug 21st, 2013
kplu.org Anat Cohen Quartet Concert on Jazz Northwest By: Jim Wilke Anat Cohen has been winning both critics and readers national jazz polls for several years and she tours continually, playing major jazz festivals and clubs around the world. The last week of July found her in Port Townsend, WA where she was teaching and performing at Centrum’s annual jazz...
Posted Aug 19th, 2013
from blogs.seattletimes.com Cool first night at Jazz Port Townsend By: Paul de Barros The opening concert featuring multi-reed player Anat Cohen on B flat clarinet, with Hamilton and Seattle’s Dawn Clement (piano) and Chuck Deardorf’ (bass). Cohen’s version of Fats Waller’s ‘Jitterbug Waltz’ showed she has moved beyond mere mastery ‘” she was all over that licorice stick! ‘” to...
Posted Jul 29th, 2013
From the Rochester City Newspaper JAZZ FEST 2013, Day 5: Ron reviews Anat Cohen, John Patitucci Trio, Julian Arguelles, and Alfredo Rodriguez By: Ron Netsky Xerox Auditorium is not exactly the ideal venue for a jazz concert. It is, after all, a sterile corporate auditorium. But Tuesday night Anat Cohen breathed new life into it by breathing a dizzying array...
Posted Jul 24th, 2013
from wxxinews.org VIDEO: Anat Cohen at the Jazz Festival By: Juan Vazquez Anat Cohen headlined the Xerox Auditorium during Day 5 of the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival. WXXI cameras were there to record this number during one of her two performances on Tuesday. To watch the video click here
Posted Jun 27th, 2013
from democratandchronicle.com Review: Working hard for the moments on Day 5 By: Jeff Spevak Some musicians come with a built-in moment. Tony Bennett and ‘I Left My Heart in San Francisco.’ Mr. Rogers and ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ But most musicians have to work for it, night in and night out. And Anat Cohen really worked it Tuesday night,...
Posted Jun 26th, 2013
from chicagotribune.com Three top clarinetists salute the master, Benny Goodman By: Howard Reich Each of the clarinetists approached this repertoire quite differently, and each illuminated a distinct facet of Goodman’s music. But Cohen surely came closest to evoking the sensuousness of Goodman’s sound, the propulsion of his rhythm and the soaring high spirits of his up-tempo playing. From Cohen’s first...
Posted Jun 17th, 2013
from rochestercitynewspaper.com Interview: Anat Cohen By: Ron Netsky When Israeli clarinetist Anat Cohen steps out of her Brooklyn home, she finds herself between two worlds. Cohen resides in Williamsburg, a vital neighborhood in the New York jazz scene. But Williamsburg is also a center of Hasidic Judaism in the United States. “I live right on the border,” says Cohen. “I...
Posted Jun 13th, 2013
Tune into ShowGo.tv tomorrow night and you can watch a live stream of the Anat Cohen Quartet’s set from the Blue Note Milano, 9pm local time (Milan, Italy). The live stream will be here
Posted May 17th, 2013
washingtonpost.com Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival begins final year as women-only showcase The headline blared: ‘Why Women Musicians Are Inferior.’ It was cringe-inducing even in 1938, when the respected jazz publication DownBeat printed the essay. A rebuttal from a female saxophonist ‘” a ‘skirt swinger’ ‘” was further ridiculed when DownBeat slapped on the title ‘How Can You...
Posted May 16th, 2013
from nytimes.com Jazz’s Skinny Stepchild By: Joe Nocera In search of some live Brazilian music a few months ago, I found my way to Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, in the Time Warner Center, where the Brazilian percussionist Duduka Da Fonseca was leading a quintet. I can’t say I knew much about Mr. Da Fonseca before I heard his band that night,...
Posted May 3rd, 2013
from clevelandclassical.wordpress.com Preview: Tri-C JazzFest ‘” a conversation with clarinetist & saxophonist Anat Cohen By: Jarrett Hoffman As part of Cleveland’s 2013 Tri-C JazzFest, renowned jazz clarinetist and saxophonist Anat Cohen will be performing with the Rimon Jazz Institute Ensemble from Tel Aviv as well as the Tri-C Jazz Studies Workshop Ensemble on April 24 beginning at 7:30 pm in...
Posted Apr 19th, 2013
Every year, the North Sea Jazz Festival hands out the Paul Acket Award to an artist deserving wider recognition for their extraordinary musicianship. The winner of the Paul Acket Award 2013 is the Israeli musician Anat Cohen. Anat Cohen is an Israeli clarinettist, saxophonist and band leader who mixes jazz with different styles of ethnic music. She plays with her...
Posted Apr 17th, 2013
stljazznotes.blogspot.com StLJN interview: Anat Cohen The Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival began as primarily an educational event for local student jazz bands, and although the festival has been booking headlining talent for several years now, the professionals performing at the GSLJF still are involved in putting on workshops and adjudications for the students. As you’d expect, the questions they get...
Posted Apr 17th, 2013
stljewishlight.com Israeli clarinetist Anat Cohen is must-see Jazz Festival artist By: Marvin Glassman Israeli clarinetist Anat Cohen is on top of the music world. She has been voted as clarinetist of the year for six consecutive years (2007-12) by both the jazz music writers association and Downbeat Magazine, a popular magazine for jazz fans. Cohen has been compared to Benny...
Posted Apr 11th, 2013
from http://adrianyekkes.blogspot.co.uk Anat Cohen Quartet at Pizza Express By: Adrian Yekkes Anat Cohen played her first ever UK gig last night at Pizza Express Jazz in London. The final concert of her quartet’s European tour played to a full house that was left wanting more after two brilliant sets of compositions mostly taken from her current album – Claroscuro, which...
Posted Mar 22nd, 2013
from standard.co.uk Anat Cohen quartet, Pizza Express Jazz Club – music review By: Jack Massarik Back in the Swing era, when clarinet was king, its leading exponents, bandleaders Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw, were superstars. The Bop revolution changed all that, but if anyone can bring the once-mighty ‘liquorice stick’ back into fashion after a half-century in the shadows it’s...
Posted Mar 19th, 2013
from winnipegfreepress.com Cohen the pied piper of jazz By: Chris Smith If there were a pied piper of jazz, it would be a woman playing a clarinet as jazz fans happily followed her wherever she led them. And that woman would be Anat Cohen, who led happy jazz fans through many styles of music Sunday afternoon during the second of...
Posted Mar 11th, 2013
from edmontonjournal.com Concert preview: Clarinet hard to ignore in Anat Cohen’s hands Israeli-born musician brings quartet to Yardbird Suite By: Roger Levesque EDMONTON – For decades now, the once popular clarinet has sat on the sidelines of jazz music, practised by a few skilled, veteran players who tended to stick with traditional material. Anat Cohen may be changing that. Still...
Posted Mar 5th, 2013
from writteninmusic.com ANAT COHEN – CLAROSCURO By: Henning Bolte Anat Cohen (1975), the middle of the Cohen family of musicians from Tel Aviv, has a vibrant musicality, is all music (for the Cohen family see HERE and HERE to Written In Music ). Her game – on clarinets and saxophones – is pure musical pleasure, her own pleasure and equal...
Posted Mar 4th, 2013
From The Canadian Jewish News Top Israeli Clarinetist to Perform in Canada By: Marvin Glassman Israeli clarinetist Anat Cohen is on top of the music world. She has been voted as clarinetist of the year six years in a row (2007 to 2012) by both the Jazz Journalists Association and Downbeat Magazine. She has been compared to Benny Goodman and...
Posted Mar 4th, 2013
from winnipegfreepress.com Anat Cohen is making the clarinet cool By: Chris Smith Jazz musician Anat Cohen is adept at tenor and soprano saxophones, as well as the clarinet.As a good jazz musician, clarinettist and saxophonist Anat Cohen will introduce surprises into her performances — a tune you didn’t expect, an unusual phrase, a solo you’ll talk about for a long...
Posted Mar 1st, 2013
marlbank.tumblr.com Anat Cohen to make her UK debut By: Stephen Graham She’s been on the cover of both Downbeat and Jazz Times, and with the release of her latest album Claroscuro as recently as the autumn, the multi-award winning clarinet, bass clarinet and saxophone player Anat Cohen, with a finely honed individualism in her extraordinarily burnished playing, here achieves maximum...
Posted Feb 21st, 2013
Tune into NPR and WHYY’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross today to hear Anat Cohen chat with Terry. To find out when it will air in your area click here
Posted Feb 6th, 2013
from southflorida.com 3 Cohens, many influences By: Bob Weinberg George Wein’s Newport All-Stars seemed a bit out of place among the percussive, groove-heavy lineup of San Juan’s 2010 Heineken Jazz Fest. How would a bluesy, traditional jazz group fare amidst a roster of Latin-jazz superstars? And yet, when the band’s clarinetist, the Israeli-born Anat Cohen, started blowing hot ‘n’ sweet...
Posted Feb 4th, 2013
from ksfr.org Anat Cohen’s album “Claroscuro” will be featured on KSFR’s Good Morning Jazz – Best Jazz CDs of 2012 show. You can stream it at ksfr.org from 9:00 AM to noon mountain time.
Posted Jan 10th, 2013
from sfgate.com Review: A look at overlooked albums of 2012 By: The Associated Press (Excerpt by Charles J. Gans) Israeli-born Anat Cohen is doing her utmost to ensure that the clarinet no longer remains an overlooked instrument in modern jazz. On “Claroscuro” ‘” a Spanish term referring to the play between light and dark in painting ‘” Cohen offers a...
Posted Jan 2nd, 2013
from kansascity.com Jazz artist Anat Cohen creates a dance to remember By: Bill Brownlee The inspiration for ‘Anat’s Dance,’ the title of a selection performed by the Anat Cohen Quartet at the Folly Theater on Friday, wasn’t difficult to discern. Cohen spent much of the evening rapturously swaying, displaying uninhibited salsa moves and pumping a fist in the air. Her...
Posted Dec 17th, 2012
from kansascity.com Jazz Town: One player offers the world’s jazz By: Joe Klopus Award-winning multireedist Anat Cohen is on a musical journey around all the world’s styles. For example, her new album has songs from France, Brazil, South Africa and the heart of the jazz tradition. This expansive journey, which brings her and her quartet to the Folly Theater on...
Posted Dec 12th, 2012
from philly.com Karl Stark’s Best in Jazz By: Karl Stark Anat Cohen, Claroscuro (Anzic Records). As jazz goes more international, it is only proper that a Tel Aviv-born clarinetist based in New York should play music from Brazil, France, Cuba, and South Africa, with some New Orleans sass thrown in. Only Anat Cohen, a master storyteller on reeds, can pull...
Posted Dec 11th, 2012
from blogs.opb.org Top 10 Albums of 2012 By: Matt Fleeger The 3 Cohen siblings (Yuval, Anat, Avishai) showcase their abilities for songwriting, playing and passionate improvisation on this swinging, hard-driving release. Guest vocalist Jon Hendricks joins the band for a couple of tunes ‘” making this album a diverse, and solid, listen the whole way through. There’s something special about...
Posted Dec 11th, 2012
from NPR Anat Cohen on Piano Jazz Israel-born clarinetist and saxophonist Anat Cohen joins Marian McPartland, along with bassist Gary Mazzaroppi and drummer Glenn Davis, for a quartet edition of Piano Jazz. Born and Raised in Tel Aviv, Anat Cohen grew up in a musical family: Her older brother Yuval played saxophone and her younger brother Avishai played trumpet. (Both...
Posted Nov 19th, 2012
from The Chicago Tribune Only one clarinetist on earth could have come up with the album “Claroscuro,” its stylistic breadth expressing the singular esthetic of soloist Anat Cohen. That Cohen careens on this disc from original compositions to Brazilian fare, from historic repertoire to bracing new music sums up her approach to the art of jazz improvisation and composition. That...
Posted Nov 12th, 2012
rochestercitynewspaper.com CD Review: Anat Cohen ‘Claroscuro’ By: Ron Netsky Since her move from Israel to New York in 1999, Anat Cohen has dazzled audiences on a variety of reed instruments including clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, and tenor sax. She is also one of those rare players who is somehow capable of spanning the entirety of jazz history on one...
Posted Nov 7th, 2012
allaboutjazz.com Anat Cohen at Kennedy Center Jazz Club By: Fran A. Matzner Anat Cohen has received no shortage of accolades of late and her rise is a testament to her stunning capacities on clarinet and saxophone. She is no stranger to Washington, DC audiences either, packing clubs and concert halls from Bohemian Caverns to the Sixth and I Synagogue. Most...
Posted Nov 6th, 2012
from ajwnews.com A more intimate clarinet festival By: Mordecai Specktor Jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen reports that she was spared the calamitous effects of Hurricane Sandy. ‘We’re some of the luckiest people ‘” we were not affected,’ she says, during a phone conversation with the AJW last week from her home in New York City. ‘Everything is fine in my neighborhood;...
Posted Nov 6th, 2012
chicagoreader.com Jazz: The Whammies and Anat Cohen By:Peter Margasak Though the Umbrella festival dominates this weekend’s jazz and improvised-music calendar, it’s hardly the only action in town. On Sunday Israeli clarinetist Anat Cohen returns to the area for a show at SPACE in Evanston with her excellent quartet’“pianist Jason Lindner, bassist Joe Martin, and drummer Daniel Freedman. In September Cohen...
Posted Nov 6th, 2012
from jazzhistoryonline.com Anat and Avishai Cohen at the Wolf Theatre, Denver (October 27, 2012) By: Thomas Cunniffe It is a rare treat for us in the hinterlands to hear live authentic jazz from Brooklyn. There are several progressive sub-genres developing inthat New York borough, and the Cohen family—clarinetist Anat, trumpeter Avishai and saxophonist Yuval—are at the forefront of those ideas....
Posted Oct 30th, 2012
blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/ Anat Cohen: From Israel With Swing By: Mark Keresman Quickly: How many female jazz instrumentalists can you name? Not singers, of which there are aplenty, but ace players of instruments of the female gender? There are more prominent ones on the scene than there were, say, 30 years ago—composer/bandleaders Carla Bley and Maria Schneider, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, guitarist Mary...
Posted Oct 23rd, 2012
from allaboutjazz.com Anat Cohen: Claroscuro (2012) By: Dan Bilawsky Art begets art on Anat Cohen’s Claroscuro. The Israeli-born, New York-based multi-reedist leaves the confines of Benny Goodman’s world behind, following her clarinet-only sojourn into king of swing territory, Clarinetwork: Live At The Village Vanguard (Anzic, 2010), with a wide-ranging musical treatise on the balance between light and dark. Cohen addresses...
Posted Oct 16th, 2012
from http://articles.philly.com Jazz Anat Cohen Claroscuro (Anzic Records ***1/2) As jazz goes increasingly international, it is only right that a Tel Aviv-born clarinetist who lives in New York should play music from Brazil, France, Cuba, and South Africa, with some New Orleans sass thrown in. Anat Cohen is a master storyteller on reeds, and her working band – pianist Jason...
Posted Oct 14th, 2012
from culturalpurveyor.com Anat Cohen Again Breathes New Life into the Jazz Clarinet By: Bob Cochran There haven’t been many great clarinetists in Jazz since the days of Sidney Bechet, Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman. That changed a few years ago when Anat Cohen came on the scene. She first became known for her saxophone work when she and her brothers,...
Posted Oct 11th, 2012
from npr.org Born in Tel Aviv, Anat Cohen came to New York two decades ago to study the masters of jazz. In so doing, the clarinetist and saxophonist started a bit of a stampede: Today, Israel is exporting some of the most vital jazz out there. After years of also studying the music of South America, Cohen has chosen to...
Posted Oct 8th, 2012
from triblive.com/ Claroscuro By: Bob Karlovits Offering a variety of tones and shades on clarinet, Anat Cohen does indeed create something that could be called ‘Claroscuro.’ Rapidly turning into one of the best clarinetists in jazz, Cohen offers originals, a gently drifting version of ‘La Vie en Rose,’ Artie Shaw’s ‘Nightmare’ and a great version of ‘Um a Zero’ from...
Posted Oct 8th, 2012
jazzpolice.com ‘Claroscuro’: The Many Shades (and Vibrant Colors) of Anat Cohen By: Andrea Canter Even a few weeks before her new recording was released, Anat Cohen had earned the #1 ranking for clarinet in Downbeat’s Critics poll and graced the cover of Jazz Times’ ‘Women’s Issue’ (September 2012). The spotlight was already well earned; Claroscuro (Anzic), however, serves as confirmation...
Posted Oct 6th, 2012
from jazzinspace.blogspot.com The clarinetist and multi-reedist Anat Cohen has a sound that speaks in an array of brilliant colors. As a performer and leader, (she recently kicked off the release of ‘Claroscuro’ on Anzic Records with a six night gig at the Village Vanguard, a comfortable space that she called ‘one big living room’) Cohen knows how to pull a...
Posted Oct 4th, 2012
latinjazznet.com Anat Cohen ‘” Claroscuro By: Raul de Gama This is so characteristic of the glorious reeds and winds style of Anat Cohen and it is no exception on Claroscuro as well. Cohen is one of the most adventuresome clarinet players since Don Byron seemed to pick up from where Eric Dolphy left off on bass clarinet at least. Her...
Posted Oct 1st, 2012
from jazztimes.com *Anat Cohen at the Village Vanguard 9/22/2012 The multi-reedist pays homage to Goodman and the rest at the legendary club* By: Scott Krane It has been more than 70 years since Benny Goodman, a nice clarinet-blowing Jewish boy from Chicago, emerged on the jazz scene and kept things swinging in the homeland during the Second World War. Today,...
Posted Sep 27th, 2012
Anat Cohen ‘” celebrated the world over for her expressive virtuosity on clarinet and saxophone, not to mention the sheer joie de vivre in her charismatic stage presence ‘” presents the latest record of her evolution with Claroscuro, her sixth album as a bandleader. To be released by Anzic Records in September 2012, Claroscuro takes its title from the Spanish...
Posted Sep 25th, 2012
from seattletimes.com Israeli clarinetist Anat Cohen sparkles on ‘Claroscuro By: Paul de Barros The clarinet went so hopelessly out of fashion in jazz after the swing era it was anybody’s guess when it would make a comeback. Don Byron gained the first major yardage, but the soulful, ebullient Israeli musician Anat Cohen has scored a touchdown. Perhaps because of her...
Posted Sep 25th, 2012
from emusic.com By: Dave Summer Anat Cohen, Claroscuro: Multi-reedist Cohen keeps gaining steam right along with quality releases. Her newest has Cohen hitting all the right notes on clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano & tenor sax. Bringing in her quartet of Jason Lindner (piano), Joe Martin (bass), and Daniel Freedman (drums), she also has guest appearances by Paquito D’Rivera, Wycliffe...
Posted Sep 25th, 2012
from winnipegfreepress.com Four good choices and a sackbut joke, too By; Chris Smith Multi-reedist Anat Cohen showcases her versatility as an instrumentalist and in her choice of musical styles on her sixth album as a leader. The Israeli-born, New York-based Cohen combines buoyant dances and dark ballads; thus the title, which describes the play of light and shade in art....
Posted Sep 24th, 2012
from wsj.com Anat Project It All By: Tad Hendrickson The New York jazz community, long populated by players from around the world, has seen a major influx of excellent Israeli musicians in last 20 years. Among this crowd, the stand-out is doubtless Anat Cohen, who as a clarinetist and multi-reedist has topped several jazz polls in recent years. Now living...
Posted Sep 17th, 2012
from wicn.org Catch Colors of Jazz when host Bonnie welcomes Clarinetis’‘t-Saxophon’‘ist Anat Cohen to celebrate the September 25th release of her new album Claroscur’‘o. Named Jazz Journalist Association’s 2012 Multi-Reeds Player and Clarinetist of the Year, the Anzic Recording Artist has the distinction of being honored with multiple JJA JAZZ AWARDS for six years running. On Claroscur’‘o, Ms. Cohen is...
Posted Sep 13th, 2012
allaboutjazz.com Anat Cohen: Claroscuro (2012) By: Ernest Barteldes Reed multi-instrumentalist Anat Cohen seems equally comfortable performing Brazilian jazz with Duduka Da Fonseca’s quintet, contemporary jazz with her two brothers in the Three Cohens, or Afro-Cuban and more straight-ahead material with the countless ensembles with which she has worked over the years. Claroscuro reflects Cohen’s unique ability to tackle multiple genres...
Posted Aug 21st, 2012
from allaboutjazz.com Excerpts From: Newport Jazz Festival 2012 The final Harbor Stage act on Saturday proved to be one of the most memorable of the weekend, with three of the most important clarinetists in jazz joining together as one. George Wein made a rare appearance at the microphone, explaining that he’d been trying to get Anat Cohen, Ken Peplowski and...
Posted Aug 17th, 2012
from audaud.com Anat Cohen ‘” Claroscuro ‘” Anzic Records ANZ-0040, 67:04 ****½ By: Jeff Krow If you look up eclectic saxophone and clarinet players on Wikipedia, I wouldn’t be surprised if the name and photo of Israeli musician, Anat Cohen didn’t show up. Anat has been everywhere in the last 5-10 years. After settling in New York City, she has...
Posted Aug 16th, 2012
from straightnochaserjazz.libsyn.com Podcast 288: A Conversation with Anat Cohen When Downbeat magazine’s Critics Poll appeared earlier this month, to no one’s surprise, Anat Cohen captured the award as Best Clarinet player, and earned the Rising Star award on Tenor Saxophone. She was a dual winner at the Jazz Journalists’ Awards for Clarinetist of the Year and Multi-reeds Player of the...
Posted Jul 19th, 2012
The Jazz Journalists Association announced winners of the 2012 Jazz Awards at the Blue Note in New York City Wednesday. Anat Cohen was awarded Clarinetist of the Year and Multi-reeds Player of the Year Downbeat Magazine also released the results of it’s 60th Annual Critics Poll. Anat took home the award for Clarinet in and was named the top Rising...
Posted Jun 30th, 2012
Anat Cohen recently talked with PRX’s Jeff Haas on The New Jazz Archive to talk about about why Israel is becoming a hotbed for new jazz talent. You can stream the program here (Anat’s segment starts around 50:30)
Posted Jun 12th, 2012
From The Reading Eagle Anat Cohen Headlines Berks Jazz Fest’s New Faces of Jazz Concert By: Susan L. Peéa “New Faces of Jazz,” a concert by the Anat Cohen Quartet and Eldar, will be presented at Reading Area Community College’s Miller Center for the Arts on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Boscov’s Berks Jazz Fest. Cohen, a...
Posted Mar 29th, 2012
from bwog.com Anat Cohen Quartet at Miller Anat Cohen absorbs the klezmer of her heritage and cranks out a mix of Afro-beat, Brazilian choro, avant garde jazz, and just about everything in between. She masters whatever woodwind instrument she can get her hands on and it’s clear that the world has started noticing. Her recent rise to the ranks of...
Posted Feb 14th, 2012
from timesunion.com Jazz musician Anat Cohen to play The Egg By: R.J. DeLuke To watch Anat Cohen play her horn on stage, whether it’s saxophone or clarinet, is to observe an artist fully engaged the experience. Full of passion. Full of joy. When she’s not soloing, she’s moving to the music being made by her comrades. She might sway, dance,...
Posted Feb 9th, 2012
From The Hartford Courant Jazz’s Anat Cohen Headlines Diabetes Fundraiser By: Owen McNally Along with her soulful mix of fire and finesse, Anat Cohen, the brilliant, Israeli-born clarinetist/saxophonist, is a jazz existentialist who plays completely in the moment with moving poetic expression, urgent directness, clarity and concision. Besides her celebration of spontaneity, the acclaimed instrumentalist/composer’s stylistic hallmarks include a passion...
Posted Jan 18th, 2012
From Broadway World Anat Cohen Quartet To Make Miller Theatre Jazz Series Debut 2/11 From Miller Theatre Director Melissa Smey: ‘I am so thrilled to present the Anat Cohen Quartet as part of our Jazz series this season. Anat Cohen has been on my wish list for a while now, and I cannot wait to share her incredible gifts as...
Posted Jan 10th, 2012
From Mezzo Watch a bonus video from the Paris Jazzed Out series below featuring the Anat Cohen Quartet performing “Casa Del Llano” with Anat Cohen on clarinet, Jason Lindner on keyboard, Joe Martin on bass, and Daniel Freedman on drums:
Posted Nov 17th, 2011
From Centre Daily Times CONCERT REVIEW: Anat Cohen Shares Spotlight With Her Jazz Quartet By: Jenna Spinelle Anat Cohen might have had top billing Thursday night, but she certainly wasn’t afraid to step back and let her band mates shine. Cohen, a clarinetist and saxophonist, performed in Schwab Auditorium Thursday with her quartet ‘” drummer Daniel Freedman, pianist Jason Lindner...
Posted Oct 31st, 2011
From Centre Daily Times Life Experience Colors Anat Cohen’s Jazz By: Jenna Spinelle Anat Cohen’s second visit to Penn State promises to take the audience on a global journey and, along the way, show that jazz comes in many shapes and sizes. Cohen, a clarinetist and saxophonist performing with her quartet at Penn State Oct. 27, grew up in Tel...
Posted Oct 21st, 2011
From Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs Anat Cohen – Israeli queen of clarinet By: Avigayil Kadesh Tel Aviv native Anat Cohen is hard-put to explain why she has just received, for the fifth consecutive year, the Jazz Journalists Association’s Clarinetist of the Year award. “There are not a lot of jazz clarinetists out there,” she says modestly, after some thought....
Posted Aug 31st, 2011
From TVJazz.tv Check out a clip of the Anat Cohen Quartet’s performance at the Montreal Jazz Festival this past weekend below or at this link. More Videos at ChordsCenter
Posted Jun 28th, 2011
From Jazz Virtuosa A Celebration of Women in Jazz Anat Cohen – Clarinet Conversation Anat Cohen knows how to make a clarinet sing. In fact, as I write this, I am listening to her arrangement of ‘A Change is Gonna Come,’ one of my favorite songs by the legendary Sam Cooke. Her rendition of ‘A Change is Gonna Come’ is...
Posted Jun 20th, 2011
From The Jerusalem Post Blue and white and ‘Noir’ in Givatayim By Barry Davis Titans of the local and ethnic music scene are featured in the upcoming Festijazz festival. The Festijazz festival closes out its first decade of existence at Givatayim Theater next week with a highly varied program. As an Israeli jazz-based event, most of the usual suspects from...
Posted Jun 10th, 2011
from Los Angeles Times Bill Cosby, jazz connoisseur June 8, 2011 Now in its 33rd year, this weekend’s Playboy Jazz Festival needs no introduction as a summertime fixture on the L.A. music scene. Yet arguably that tradition wouldn’t be the same without emcee Bill Cosby, who this year is hosting for the 30th time. Cosby’s occasional interjection of one-liners from...
Posted Jun 8th, 2011
From OffBeat Jazz Fest Focus: Anat Cohen By: Zachary Young ‘My first exposure to jazz was through the music of New Orleans,’ says saxophonist and clarinetist Anat Cohen. Growing up in Tel Aviv, Israel, one of her earliest musical experiences was as a member of the Jaffa Conservatory’s Dixieland band. Recordings of Sidney Bechet stoked that interest. ‘There was so...
Posted Apr 26th, 2011
From Tablet Jazz Standards: Israeli clarinetist Anat Cohen, a master of expressive improvisation, leads a talented wave of expatriate musicians flooding the New York jazz scene By: Ben Waltzer Late one night this summer you could walk down East 27th Street in New York, enter a doorway under a neon sign that beamed ‘Jazz Standard,’ descend a staircase, and hear...
Posted Jan 26th, 2011
From The San Antonio Express-News Anat Cohen Quartet: Top-flight jazz at the Carver While the annual ‘Chanukah on the River’ was rocking the River Walk, Tel Aviv-born/New York City-based reed wizard Anat Cohen and her band, Benny Green (piano), Peter Wahington (bass) and Lewis Nash (drums), were helping jazz fans celebrate chanukah on Sunday evening with a salute to Benny...
Posted Dec 6th, 2010
From ABC Winter’s Eve 2010 NEW YORK (WABC) — The holiday tree was officially lit up at the Winter’s Eve celebration at Lincoln Square. The 11th Annual Winter’s Eve at Lincoln Square was held in Dante Park on November 29th and featured a tree-lighting ceremony with WABC-TV anchor Sade Baderinwa. The festival also included outdoor food tastings from over two...
Posted Nov 30th, 2010
Anat Cohen has won this year’s DownBeat Reader’s Poll in the clarinet category! For the full list of winners keep checking DownBeat on stands or online here
Posted Nov 4th, 2010
From the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Announces 2011-2012 American Masterpieces and Mid Atlantic Tours Rosters Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation has announced the rosters for its 2011-2012 American Masterpieces and Mid Atlantic Tours programs. Fee support is available to presenters in Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, U.S. Virgin Islands and West...
Posted Oct 25th, 2010
from NPR.org/ablogsupreme ‘Jazzed Out’ All Over Paris by Patrick Jarenwattananon Jazzed Out is a series of 10 short, videotaped performances of jazz musicians playing sessions in unconventional venues. It looks to be edited much like the Take-Away Shows, and taped all across the city of Paris. Anat Cohen’s quartet, Avishai Cohen (the bassist, not Anat’s brother), Jacques Schwarz-Bart’s quintet, and...
Posted Oct 20th, 2010
From The San Francisco Chronicle Israeli Musicians Bring Global Sound to SFJazz By Jesse Hamlin It’s hard to keep track of all the brilliant young Israeli jazz musicians on the scene these days. Three of New York’s finest – trumpeter Avishai Cohen, his woodwind-playing sister Anat Cohen and bassist Omer Avital – will dig into a rich range of music...
Posted Oct 5th, 2010
From All About Jazz Anat Cohen: Clarinetwork Live at the Village Vanguard By Raul d’Gama Rose Anat Cohen can make the clarinet sing’“literally and figuratively. On Clarinetwork Live at the Village Vanguard her wonderful, flowing melodic lines swoop and soar like arias placating the most high. It is as if’“in that spiritualised state of grace’“Cohen, in her singular, burnished or...
Posted Aug 23rd, 2010
from The Boston Globe Newport Jazz Festival: A study in contrasts by Steve Greenlee NEWPORT, R.I. ‘” The eclectic mix of styles that is the hallmark of the Newport Jazz Festival couldn’t have been displayed any better than it was mid-afternoon yesterday. As trumpeter Wynton Marsalis took his quintet through an hour of buttoned-down, straight-ahead jazz on the main stage,...
Posted Aug 8th, 2010
from The Hartford Courant Israeli Clarinetist Anat Cohen’ Featured Sunday at Litchfield Jazz Festival By Owen McNally Anat Cohen, one of the best among Israel’s many jazz exports to the United States, demonstrates her world-class clarinet chops Sunday night as she performs with her quartet at the 15th annual Litchfield Jazz Festival in Kent. A highlight of the star-studded weekend...
Posted Aug 5th, 2010
Join NPR, WBGO, and WGBH for two days of live webcasting, broadcasting, and archival recordings from the Newport Jazz Festival on August 7th and 8th. Features include artist interviews, photo streams, and live chats. Be sure to catch performances by IMN artists Anat Cohen, Jason Moran, and Dave Douglas here.
Posted Aug 2nd, 2010
(From All About Jazz) By: Thomas Conrad Published: June 11, 2010 Anat Cohen is one of the major jazz success stories of the last decade. She arrived in New York from Israel in 1996 and, by the turn of the century, was an important factor in the reemergence of the clarinet as a solo jazz instrument. Yet her recordings have...
Posted Jun 14th, 2010
(From Jazz Police) By: Andrea Canter Published: April 28, 2010 In a recent Jazz Times ‘Before and After’ column, Anat Cohen, after listening to a track by bassist Nillson Matta, described the music as ‘ an elastic pole moving from side to side.’ It would be an apt metaphor for her own clarinet. Over the past decade, the Berklee-trained, New...
Posted Apr 29th, 2010
(From The Chicago Tribune) By: Howard Reich Published: April 23, 2010 When Anat Cohen was growing up in Israel, in the 1970s and ’80s, opportunities to hear world-class jazz musicians in person were scarce. Though Tel Aviv teemed with local artists playing the music, American virtuosos who defined the art form only sporadically crossed her radar, she says. Nonetheless, in...
Posted Apr 23rd, 2010
(From The Minneapolis Star Tribune) By: Rick Mason Published: April 17, 2010 With a ferocious, rafters-rattling sound, scurrying, cutting-edge improvisations, dizzying eclecticism and, by all accounts, a charismatic presence that overflows the bandstand, Anat Cohen appears on the brink of taking the jazz world by storm. And since the clarinet has emerged as her primary instrument, the Israeli native could...
Posted Apr 19th, 2010
(from The Morning Call) By STEVE SIEGEL Published: March 11, 2010 The Anat Cohen Quartet got up on the Williams Center stage Wednesday night, eased into a syncopated 9/8 Latin beat, really gunned it for awhile with some straight ahead jazz, wailed like an Islamic call to prayer, and ended with a soothing samba. And that was just the first...
Posted Mar 19th, 2010
From San Diego Union-Tribune (by: George Varga) The wide world of jazz is broader and more global than ever, 77 years after Duke Ellington first toured Europe and more than 90 years after Alabama-born James Reese Europe and his big band became the first American jazz group to perform on the European continent . . . . . . Moreover,...
Posted Feb 14th, 2010
Anat Cohen: Clarinetwork Live At the Village Vanguard Releases: April 13, 2010 From Shore Fire Press Release: On April 13, Anat Cohen will release her first live album, Clarinetwork: Live At The Village Vanguard on her own Anzic Records. The album was recorded on one evening – July 5, 2009 – during an historic 6-night residency at the legendary venue...
Posted Feb 12th, 2010
Supplied by NPR January 1, 2010 from WGBH – In 1996, saxophonist Anat Cohen left Tel Aviv, Israel to study at the Berklee College of Music. Since then, she picked up the clarinet, moved to New York, started playing frequently in Brazilian music ensembles and eventually released four acclaimed albums that launched her star high in the jazz world. But...
Posted Jan 1st, 2010
From Berklee Today (by: Mark Small) Berklee grad, Anat Cohen returned to her alma mater to perform on New Year’s Eve: “Cohen played tenor saxophone for two years in the Israeli Air Force Band before entering Berklee in 1996. Berklee Professor Phil Wilson detected something distinctive in her clarinet playing and encouraged her to develop it. The instrument has since...
Posted Jan 1st, 2010
This year, the Belgrade Jazz Festival featured two of IMN’s artists including Anat Cohen and Joe Lovano. For more news and highlights from Joe Lovano’s Fall 2009 tour, visit www.imnworld.com/joelovano That there is such a thing as a Belgrade Jazz Festival will come as a surprise to many American jazz fans. The last time most Americans thought about Belgrade was...
Posted Nov 30th, 2009
ASCAP President & Chairman Paul Williams has announced that ASCAP will add seven music greats to the ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 and the first-ever ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame Prize will be presented to clarinetist/saxophonist/composer Anat Cohen for her promise in Jazz composition and musicianship. Click here to read the full article at All...
Posted Jun 17th, 2009
In her Waverly Place apartment, Israeli-born clarinetist Anat Cohen is transcribing Benny Goodman solos, preparing to celebrate his centennial next month at the Village Vanguard. “I wish I could just be there at that time, and I could just get up and dance, and jitterbug with everybody else,” Cohen says. “His swing is just so exciting. And he really goes...
Posted May 30th, 2009
Anat Cohen has been nominated as a finalist for the 2009 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Award, Clarinetist of the Year. Click here, for a complete list of nominees.
Posted May 7th, 2009
Reading, PA – Anat Cohen, a clarinetist and tenor saxophonist who has gained a big reputation in the past decade as one of the most talented artists of her generation, led a formidable quartet Sunday afternoon in Reading Area Community College’s Miller Center for the Arts. Click here to read the full article at The Reading Eagle.
Posted Mar 30th, 2009
WBGO, October 22, 2008 – It’s not quite enough to say that Anat Cohen has many interests in jazz. To start, she plays three instruments: clarinet and both soprano and tenor saxes. Then she plays them in various and sundry settings, including modern jazz, traditional ensembles, classical music and every type of Afro-Latin hybrid imaginable: Argentinian, Brazilian, pan-Caribbean and so...
Posted Nov 10th, 2008
“Notes from the Village” was released today by Anzic Records.
Posted Sep 9th, 2008
On Wednesday June 18th at the Jazz Standard in NYC, Anat Cohen was the recipient of the award for "Clarinetist of the Year" by the Jazz Journalists Association. IMN congratulates Anat on this well deserved achievment. The Jazz Journalists Association announced winners of the 2008 Jazz Awards, the non-profit professional organization’s 12th annual celebration of excellence in jazz and jazz...
Posted Jun 19th, 2008
Rising jazz star Anat Cohen will be featured this weekend on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday (June 24) . She will talk to host Liane Hansen about her new albums Poetics and Noir (both on her own Anzic Records label), her childhood in Israel, and some of the influences that helped her develop her uniquely international sound. Check local broadcast times...
Posted Jun 22nd, 2007
Israeli clarinetist and composer Anat Cohen is into traditional jazz, Brazilian choro, Argentinean tango and Middle Eastern music. She recently visited the WNYC studios to explain how she mixed them all in two different new albums, Noir and Poetica- being simultaneously released on Anzic Records on May 8th. Hear the entire interview with musical excerpts here
Posted May 4th, 2007
Clarinetist and saxophonist Anat Cohen has taken the jazz world by storm, winning hearts and minds the world over with her expressive virtuosity and delightful stage presence. As JazzTimes says, “With the clarinet she becomes a singer, a dancer, a poet, a mad scientist, laughing — musically — with the sheer delight of reaching that new place, that new feeling, with each chorus.” An established bandleader and prolific composer, Cohen’s music is a unique blend of modern and traditional jazz, classical music, Brazilian choro, Argentine tango, and an expansive timeline of Afro-Cuban styles. Her symphonic repertoire ranges from buoyant dances to darkly lyrical ballads, showcasing her fluency in a global set of styles. The perennial winner of “Clarinetist of the Year” titles from DownBeat, JazzTimes, and the Jazz Journalists Association, Fresh Air’s Terry Gross credits Cohen with “bringing the clarinet to the world” and The New York Times hails her a “Master.”
Symphony charts for Cohen’s program with Brazilian 7-string guitarist Marcello Gonçalves are also available. Breathtaking melodies, Brazilian grooves, and elements of jazz highlight the intricate talents of both Cohen and Gonçalves on their Grammy Award nominated album, Outra Coisa: The Music of Moacir Santos. On stage, the duo’s joyful interplay is utterly captivating.
Clarinetist and saxophonist Anat Cohen has taken the jazz world by storm, winning hearts and minds the world over with her expressive virtuosity and delightful stage presence. As JazzTimes says, “With the clarinet she becomes a singer, a dancer, a poet, a mad scientist, laughing — musically — with the sheer delight of reaching that new place, that new feeling, with each chorus.” An established bandleader and prolific composer, the Anat Cohen Quartet program is a unique blend of modern and traditional jazz, classical music, Brazilian choro, Argentine tango, and an expansive timeline of Afro-Cuban styles. The perennial winner of “Clarinetist of the Year” titles from DownBeat, JazzTimes, and the Jazz Journalists Association, Fresh Air’s Terry Gross credits Cohen with “bringing the clarinet to the world” and The New York Times hails her a “Master.”
Clarinet virtuoso Anat Cohen has always felt a deep connection to the musical traditions of Brazil – an influence readily apparent in several of her original recordings and live performances. Over numerous trips to Brazil, Anat has found kindred spirits in the remarkable musicians of Trio Brasileiro, who share her devotion to the language of music and her love of Brazilian music. Consisting of the celebrated guitarist, Douglas Lora; one of Brazil’s finest mandolinists, Dudu Maia; and the amazing percussionist, Alexandre Lora; Trio Brasileiro joined Anat Cohen on a collaborative album released in 2016, Alegria Da Casa which, as the title suggests, is a work of pure joy. In 2017, Anat & Trio Brasileiro released a second recording, Rosa Dos Ventos, which was nominated for Best World Music Album at the Grammy Awards. On tour, they perform music that celebrates the rich and varied culture of Brazil, blended with Anat’s ebullient brand of jazz.
Clarinetist Anat Cohen and 7-string guitarist Marcello Goncalves team together in a series of intimate, lyrical duets based on groundbreaking compositions by Brazilian composer Moacir Santos. Breathtaking melodies, Brazilian grooves, and elements of jazz highlight the intricate talents of both Cohen and Goncalves on their Grammy Award nominated album, Outra Coisa: The Music of Moacir Santos. DownBeat writes, “Outra Coisa is a duo album that achieves something very rare: It reduces the big band arrangements of the great Brazilian jazz composer Santos down to just two musicians…The mastery of the two musicians is such as to render additional instruments superfluous.” On stage, the duo’s joyful interplay is utterly captivating.
Memo to jazz producers and promoters across the world: If you want your jazz festival to be festive, have Anat Cohen open it.
The Washington Post
What’s not to love about a young clarinetist and saxophonist who plays everything we love’“modern jazz, world music, “hot” New Orleans style jazz’“and does it all brilliantly?
The Wall Street Journal
Not since the emergence of Paquito D’Rivera from Cuba has there been a player on this level of excitement with the instrument.
Jazz Police
Versatile, expressive mainstream-jazz reedist Anat Cohen has emerged as one of the leading clarinetists of her generation, adept at everything from Dixieland to Brazilian music.
Time Out New York
The New York jazz community, long populated by players from around the world, has seen a major influx of excellent Israeli musicians in last 20 years. Among this crowd, the stand-out is doubtless Anat Cohen…
The Wall Street Journal
Cohen’s buoyant clarinet lines soared above and among the plush tones of fluegelhorn, vibraphone, accordion, drums and what-not. To hear a soloist of Cohen’s stature surrounded by so much glowing, shimmering sound was to encounter her music in a welcome new light.
The Chicago Tribune (about Anat Cohen Tentet)
A present day multicultural wonder… An enthralling clarinetist and a persuasive saxophonist, [Anat Cohen] displays a pan-historical, pan-cultural approach to jazz.
The New Yorker
With the clarinet she becomes a singer, a dancer, a poet, a mad scientist, laughing’“musically’“with the sheer delight of reaching that new place, that new feeling, with each chorus.
JazzTimes
Ms. Cohen on the clarinet was a revelation. Using the clarinet’s upper register, she could evoke infectious joy. In the lower register, her playing could conjure a deep, soulful melancholy. On up-tempo numbers, her improvisations weren’t just bebop fast; they had a clarity and deep intelligence that is really quite rare. She made it look effortless, even as she was playing the most technically difficult of all the reed instruments‘¦ she took my breath away.
The New York Times
This is the kind of music ‘” warm, human, diverse and irresistible ‘” that will not only bring the clarinet back into favor, but jazz itself.
Seattle Times
The lyric beauty of her tone, the easy fluidity of her technique and the extroverted manner of her delivery make this music accessible to all. The Chicago Tribune
Along with her soulful mix of fire and finesse, Anat Cohen, the brilliant, Israeli-born clarinetist/saxophonist, is a jazz existentialist who plays completely in the moment with moving poetic expression, urgent directness, clarity and concision.
The Hartford Courant
…jazz clarinet has been outnumbered by even the accordion and harmonica. Anat Cohen is leading the instrument’s charge back to the throne
The Wall Street Journal