Jazz Articles about Anat Cohen

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In his fascinating autobiography, Miles Davis once said that Gil Evans would call him on the phone now and then just to share a quick thought--you know, the kind of thing some people used to do before these random impulses were relegated to texts or Tweets. His classic example was a 3AM call where his longtime friend and collaborator rang to say “If you're ever depressed, Miles, just listen to 'Springsville,'" and just as abruptly hung up. Anat ...

Live Review

Anat Cohen at Davidson College

by Perry Tannenbaum
April 27, 2017

Anat Cohen/Davidson College Jazz Ensemble & Jazz Combo Davidson College / Duke Family Performance HallDavidson, NC April 21, 2017 We've known for a long time that Anat Cohen can electrify audiences whenever she picks up her clarinet and plays. After her recent residency at Davidson College, we can now proclaim that she has a similar effect on jazz students—and faculty. At the public concert that concluded the residency, Professor Bill Lawing, after leading the Davidson ...

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Anat Cohen's Brazilian Bonanza: Outra Coisa and Rosa Dos Ventos

by Dan Bilawsky
April 17, 2017

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 Pascoal, and she made the rounds in New York clubs--and on a pair of tracks from Luminosa (Anzic Records, 2015)--with a feisty crew dubbed Choro Aventuroso. She's an Israeli by birth and a New Yorker by address, ...

Album Review

Rodrigo Lima: Saga

Read "Saga" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
April 17, 2015

“I fell in love with the jazz guitar--all kinds of jazz guitarists, from Jim Hall to Pat Metheny to Luis Bonfá, by listening to their records," explains Brazilian composer, arranger, bandleader and guitarist Rodrigo Lima. Saga luxuriously extends this jazz guitar love affair across the American and Brazilian continents--it was recorded in New York, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba--and across the two CDs of Lima's utterly magnificent recorded debut. Producer Arnaldo DeSouteiro elegantly ...

Album Review

Anat Cohen: Luminosa

Read "Luminosa" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 11, 2015

Anat Cohen's music is literally all over the map. Across her previous six albums, Cohen has explored the sounds of America, Brazil, France, Cuba, South Africa, and her homeland, Israel; she's addressed the work of John Coltrane, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Benny Goodman, Abdullah Ibrahim, Sam Cooke, Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf, Louis Armstrong, Ernesto Lecuona, Luiz Bonfa, and numerous others; and she's delivered original material that speaks to her ceaseless globetrotting. Here, she continues to explore a wide range of music, ...

Live Review

Anat Cohen & Choro Aventuroso Feat. Leni Andrade at 54 Below

by Ernest Barteldes
September 2, 2013

Anat Cohen & Choro Aventuroso, Feat. Leny Andrade54 BelowNew York, NYAugust 23, 2013The 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 quite palpable, and the musicians fed on each others' vibes, picking up immediately where one solo left off.

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Anat Cohen: Claroscuro

Read "Claroscuro" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 21, 2012

Colleghi di mutuo soccorso. Jason Lindner dà una mano a Anat Cohen che dà una mano a Daniel Freedman che poi ricambia/no nel disco della clarinettista di origini israeliane. Di sicuro a rimettere non c'è nessuno, perché questi aiuti reciproci cementano un interplay che nei dischi di ognuno si sente eccome. Anat Cohen evoca la pittura. I chiaroscuri che cerca li trova in questi “impasti" sonori che la confermano come una delle musiciste/fiatiste più in gamba in circolazione. Una manciata ...