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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...
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2012-10-29
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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 with the same dexterity...
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2012-08-20
★★★★★
Anat Cohen Clarinetwork Live at the Village Vanguard Anzic Records 2010 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 blushing tone, is voicing the murmurings of the soul set free by the music. Cohen is an anomaly in contemporary music...
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2010-09-14
★★★★★
Anat Cohen Noir Anzic 2007 Anat Cohen Poetica Anzic 2007 Israeli multi-reedist Anat Cohen aligns her saxophones and clarinet alongside a big band on her latest album Noir. With a strong, confident sound, she leads the Anzic Orchestra through ten Oded Lev-Ari- arranged Cape Verdean carnaval tunes, Brazilian choro and jazz standards. An appropriate opening "La Comparsa , named after the band that plays during Carnaval in Cuba, kicks the disc off playfully...
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2010-08-20
★★★★★
Anat Cohen Notes from the Village Anzic 2008 Cuarteto de Clarinetes de Caracas Suelos Cacao Música 2007 Anat Cohen, an Israeli-born multi-reedist who favors clarinet, is rapidly emerging from the jazz 'underground.' Notes from the Village (an allusion to Dostoevsky's novella?), her fourth release as a leader, is sure to enhance her growing reputation...
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2010-08-20
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Anat Cohen Clarinetwork Live At The Village Vanguard Anzic Records 2010 For a jazz musician, performing, and recording an album, at New York's Village Vanguard is akin to an opera singer performing at the Metropolitan Opera. Both of these accomplishments signify a milestone in an artist's career, but clarinetist and saxophonist Anat Cohen had "made it" long before this project came to be...
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2010-08-20
★★★★★
Clarinetist/saxophonist Anat Cohen brings many talents to the forum: a gifted interpreter of songs and melodies from a variety of cultures and traditions, she speaks a rich language possessing many dialects. Originally from Israel, she and her two siblings, Yuval and Avishai, have embraced New York's jazz scene with enthusiasm and are busy charting individual career paths...
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2010-08-20
★★★★★
"I would say that's what keeps me content musically is the fact that I try to put myself in different musical situations and I enjoy them all equally, says Anat Cohen, an Israel-born musician who has been making noise in her own sweet way on the New York City music scene since coming to the Big Apple in 1999...
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2010-08-20
★★★★★
Track Listing: Sweet Georgia Brown; Lullaby Of The Leaves; Band Announcement; St. James Infirmary; After You've Gone; St. Louis Blues; Body And Soul; What A Little Moonlight Can Do. Personnel: Anat Cohen: clarinet; Benny Green: piano; Peter Washington: bass; Lewis Nash: drums. Style: Modern Jazz Anat Cohen is one of the major jazz success stories of the last decade...
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2010-06-17