Anat Cohen is an Israeli jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 clarinet

Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...

ist, saxophonist

Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

 and bandleader

Bandleader

A bandleader is the leader of a band of musicians. The term is most commonly, though not exclusively, used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or rock and roll music....

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Cohen went to the United States in 1996. Her debut album, Place & Time, was released in 2005 on Anzic Records. In 2007 she won the awards for Up and Coming Artist and Clarinetist of the Year from the Jazz Journalists Association

Jazz Journalists Association

The Jazz Journalists Association is an international organization of all types of media professionals who document, promulgate, or appreciate jazz. As of 2011, it has approximately 500 members, primarily in North America but also on other continents...

. She was also voted Clarinetist of the Year in 2008, 2009, and 2010 by the Jazz Journalists Association. She has received multiple citations in Downbeat Magazine's Annual Critics and Readers polls in multiple categories including top rankings for "Rising Star" and "Clarinet". Cohen performs regularly and has appeared at a number of notable jazz festivals, including the Montreal International Jazz Festival, Tudo É Jazz Festival and the North Sea Jazz Festival

North Sea Jazz Festival

The North Sea Jazz Festival is an annual jazz festival held each second weekend of July in the Netherlands at the Ahoy venue. It used to be in The Hague but since 2006 it has been held in Rotterdam...

. She has developed a notable work of research about Brazilian music, especially the Choro

Choro

Choro , traditionally called chorinho , is a Brazilian popular music instrumental style. Its origins are in 19th century Rio de Janeiro. In spite of the name, the style often has a fast and happy rhythm, characterized by virtuosity, improvisation, subtile modulations and full of syncopation and...

. Known at first for her sax playing, she has recently focused on the clarinet, which is featured exclusively on her latest record, Clarinetwork (with Benny Green

Benny Green (pianist)

Benny Green is a hard bop jazz pianist who was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. He has been compared to Bud Powell in style and counts him as an influence. As a boy he grew up in Berkeley, California and studied classical piano from the age of seven...

, Peter Washington

Peter Washington

Peter Washington is a jazz double bassist. He initially played classical bass and played with the Westchester Community Symphony at 14. Later he worked with electric bass and in rock bands. He went on to study English at the University of California, Berkeley...

, and Lewis Nash

Lewis Nash

Lewis Nash is an American jazz drummer. According to Modern Drummer magazine, Nash has one of the longest discographies in jazz. and has played on over 400 records by musicians, earning him the honor of being named Jazz's Most Valuable Player by the magazine in it's May, 2009 issue...

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Her brother, Avishai Cohen, is a jazz trumpet player, not to be confused with the bass player of the same name.

Discography

solo

• Place & Time (2005)
• Poetica (2007)
• Notes From the Village (2008)
• Clarinetwork: Live at the Village Vanguard (2010)

with The Anzic Orchestra

• Noir (2007)

at Choro Ensemble

• Nosso Tempo (2008)
• ChoroEnsemble (2005)

with 3 Cohens

• One
• Braid
• Family (2011)

External links

• Official website
• 2008 profile of Cohen on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz
  Piano Jazz
  Piano Jazz is a weekly one hour radio show produced and distributed by National Public Radio. It began on June 4, 1978 and has always been hosted by jazz pianist Marian McPartland. It is the longest running cultural program on NPR. The show features a single guest, and usually consists of about an...
  
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