Anat Cohen Quartet

Anat Cohen Quartet

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INTERNATIONAL JAZZ SERIES
From Israel/New York
Anat Cohen Quartet
with Jason Lindner, Joe Martin and Daniel Freedman

FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013
TICKETS - MEMBERS $26, GUESTS $30
DOORS 8 PM - SHOW 9 PM

Anat Cohen - clarinet, saxophone
Jason Lindner - piano
Joe martin - bass
Daniel Freedman - drums

Clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen has won hearts and minds the world over with her expressive virtuosity and delightful stage presence. Reviewing Anat’s 2008 headlining set with her quartet at the North Sea Jazz Festival, Downbeat said: “Cohen not only proved to be a woodwind revelation of dark tones and delicious lyricism, but also a dynamic bandleader who danced and shouted out encouragement to her group – whooping it up when pianist Jason Lindner followed her clarinet trills on a Latin-flavored number. . . With her dark, curly, shoulder-length hair swaying to the beat as she danced, she was a picture of joy.”

Anat has been voted Clarinetist of the Year six years in a row by the Jazz Journalists Association, as well as 2012’s Multi-Reeds Player of the Year. That’s not to mention her topping of Critics’ and Readers’ polls in Downbeat magazine several years running. Anat has toured the world with her quartet, headlining all of the major jazz festivals as well as at such hallowed clubs as New York’s Village Vanguard.

In September 2012, Anzic Records releases her sixth album as a bandleader “Claroscuro”. The album ranges from buoyant dances to darkly lyrical ballads, drawing inspiration from New Orleans and New York, Africa and Brazil. In its ebullient, irresistible variety, “Claroscuro” encapsulates the description Jazz Police offered of Anat in full flight: “She becomes a singer, a poet, a mad scientist, laughing – musically – with the delight of reaching that new place, that new feeling, with each chorus.”

A recipient of a 4 1/2 star Downbeat review, “Claroscuro” takes its title from the Spanish word describing the play of light and shade (chiaroscuro in Italian). The album showcases Anat’s fluency in a global set of styles, from creolized New Orleans chanson and the evergreen swing of an Artie Shaw tune to African grooves and Brazilian choro, samba and more. Playing clarinet, bass clarinet and tenor and soprano saxophones, she was joined in the studio by her top-flight working band – pianist Jason Lindner, double-bassist Joe Martin and drummer Daniel Freedman – as well as special guests trombonist/vocalist Wycliffe Gordon, percussionist Gilmar Gomes and star clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera. The disc comprises music from America, France, Brazil and South Africa played by kindred spirits from Israel, America, Brazil and Cuba. Reflecting on the naturally communicative, one-take spontaneity of the album, Anat says: “I’m playing with some of my favorite musicians in the world, and we all speak a common language, no matter where we come from.”

This is a rare opportunity to catch the world’s number one rated clarinetist together with her first-rate touring quartet.

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