Jazz Articles about Anat Cohen

About Anat Cohen

Live Review

Anat Cohen at Kennedy Center Jazz Club

by Franz A. Matzner
November 6, 2012

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 recently, Cohen filled the Kennedy Center's Jazz Club, where she helped highlight the modernistic trajectory that pianist Jason Moran is charting for the Center's jazz program as its new artistic director.

Album Review

Anat Cohen: Claroscuro

Read "Claroscuro" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 16, 2012

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 each end of the color spectrum on its own terms during this eleven-song program but, more often than not, plays one off the other within a single performance. She's ...

Album Review

Anat Cohen: Claroscuro

Read "Claroscuro" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes
August 18, 2012

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. This is immediately evident with pianist Jason Lindner's “Anat's Dance," a contemporary tune with a Latin-esque feel that allows Cohen to stretch ...

Album Review

3 Cohens: Family

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 5, 2012

Terza reunion discografica per i fratelli Cohen (di cui avevamo recensito Braid nel 2008) questa volta decisi a proporre una aggiornata rivisitazione della tradizione hardboppistica. In primo piano energiche sonorità nel segno del più classico mainstream, forgiate dalla straripante espressività dei tre fiati. Ben suonata oltre che energica, la musica proposta non guarda però oltre il modello di riferimento finendo con il risultare alla lunga omogenea e prevedibile. I tre leader sono gli autori di quasi tutte le composizioni proposte, ...

Album Review

Melissa Stylianou: Silent Movie

Read "Silent Movie" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 20, 2012

Silent Movie è il quarto album per Melissa Stylianou. La cantante canadese si destreggia con la sua voce vellutata e intimista tra standard di jazz e cover di classici pop, blues e folk, offrendoci un disco molto variegato ma omogeneo grazie anche ad arrangiamenti impeccabili che sanno valorizzare al meglio il suo grande talento. Basta già il brano di apertura, “Smile" di Charlie Chaplin, in cui la Stylianou riesce a far suo il pezzo trasmettendo all'ascoltatore un grande senso di ...

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Extended Analysis

Anat Cohen: Clarinetwork Live at the Village Vanguard

by Raul d'Gama Rose
August 19, 2010

Anat CohenClarinetwork Live at the Village VanguardAnzic Records2010 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 ...

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Album Review

Anat Cohen: Clarinetwork: Live at the Village Vanguard

Read "Clarinetwork: Live at the Village Vanguard" reviewed by Thomas Conrad

by Thomas Conrad
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 not captured the bacchanalian riot of Cohen in person, whirling on the stage, curls flying, unleashing clarinet notes in formally elegant torrents. Clarinetwork comes closer, in part because ...