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Musician

Anat Cohen

Born: 1975

Idiomatically conversant with modern and traditional jazz, classical music, Brazilian choro, Argentinetango, and an expansive timeline of Afro-Cuban styles, Anat Cohen has established herself as one ofthe primary voices of her generation on both the tenor saxophone and clarinet since arriving in NewYork in 1999.

Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, Anat grew up with musical siblings; her older brother, Yuval, is himself asaxophonist of note, and her younger brother, Avishai, is one of New York’s busiest trumpeters. Shebegan clarinet studies at age 12 and played jazz on clarinet for the first time in her Jaffa conservatory’sDixieland band. At 16 she joined the school’s big band and learned to play the tenor saxophone. Thesame year, Anat entered the prestigious “Thelma Yelin” High School for the Arts, where she majored injazz. After graduation, she discharged her mandatory Israeli military service duty from 1993-95,playing tenor saxophone in the Israeli Air Force band.

Album

Stars

By Martin Wind

Label: Newvelle Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Passing Thoughts; Life; Black Butterfly; Moody; Wail; The Feeling of Jazz; Pra Dizer Adeus; Standing at the Window Waving Goodbye; Stars Fell on Alabama.

Video

Paco

Featuring the music of Anat Cohen
Duration: 06:44
June 28, 2026

Anat Cohen has been a catalyst for re-assertion of the clarinet in jazz and world music from the 2000s to the present. Cohen has recorded albums featuring straight-ahead jazz, duos with guitar and piano, Brazilian rhythms, and chamber pieces. Most consistent about her style is the sheer technique she achieves on the instrument, the joyful interplay she generates with her groups, and at-times melancholy mood spun out of klezmer and eastern European scales and ornamentations. The song "Paco" is off her 2024 album Quartetinho: Bloom. Written by her guitarist Tal Mashiach, "Paco" stands out for the unique, blended timbre from the warm, complementary sounds of the guitar, piano and clarinet and for the gracefully shifting pulse. One of her prettiest pieces.

Article: Album Review

Victor Vieira–Branco's Bark Culture: The Giant Is Awkward

by Glenn Astarita
June 25, 2026

Vibraphonist and composer Victor Vieira-Branco has been quietly building something with Bark Culture since 2021, and the Philadelphia-based quartet is no longer content to keep it quiet. The Giant Is Awkward is the group's second album, expanding the core trio of Vieira-Branco, double bassist John Moran, and drummer Joey Sullivan with the addition of pianist and ...

Article: Album Review

Virginia MacDonald: In Search Of...

by Jack Bowers
June 21, 2026

Perhaps one reason that Virginia MacDonald is so hard to track down is that she is a woman who plays jazz clarinet. Do you know of any others? Here are at least two, both of whom are alive and active: New Orleans' Doreen Ketchens and Israeli-American Anat Cohen. Excellent players but several long strides from becoming ...

Article: Building a Jazz Library

The Top 25 Songs Featuring Clarinet

by Dean Nardi
April 21, 2026

As Ian Dury might have sung had he played the clarinet, “Hit me with your licorice stick." (That is “rhythm stick" for those not fluent in punk rock.) From the intricacies of classical music to the smooth swing of jazz to Klezmer--the folk music of the Eastern European Jewish population--the instrument resonates throughout a good portion ...

Song of the Day

Stars Fell from Alabama

March 25, 2026

Album: Stars
By Martin Wind
Label: Newvelle Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 4:32

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Plays Duke: Contemporary Covers of Early Ellington Classics

by Larry Slater
March 20, 2026

Duke Ellington is unquestionably the most important and prolific jazz composer. He composed over 1,500 tunes and quite a few have become both jazz standards and part of Americana. Even folks who don't listen to jazz know Ellington tunes like “ It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing," “Mood Indigo" and “Caravan."

Article: Multiple Reviews

A Wind For All Seasons

by Dan Bilawsky
February 5, 2026

There is something positively elemental in the artistry of Martin Wind. Beyond being one of the music's premier bassists, he is a creatively driven composer and leader--a seemingly bottomless font of expression in action--and his work most certainly represents the breadth, and breath, carried in his name. One minute he's conjuring a Brazilian Nordeste with buoyant ...

Article: Album Review

Christopher Hoffman: REX

by Don Ball
January 31, 2026

Musicians have been inspired by the visual arts for centuries, from Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition in 1874, depicting the works of the artist Viktor Hartmann, to Myra Melford's 2025 release Splash (Intakt Records, 2025), a homage to the visual artist Cy Twombly. The question always arises: Does the listener have to know the artwork ...