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Anat Cohen – Clarinet, saxophone
Playing with Howard Alden
Newcomer to Djangofest Northwest, Anat Cohen will join veteran six-time DFNW performer Howard Alden, Saturday afternoon with a fantastic clarinet and sax-meets-guitar showcase of their talent. (Also see Alden’s bio on the musicians page)
Cohen, who plays on five cuts of Alden’s highly original and swinging new CD called I Remember Django, has established herself as one of the primary voices of her generation on both the tenor saxophone and clarinet since arriving in New York City in 1999.
She is idiomatically conversant with modern and traditional jazz, classical music, Brazilian Choro, Argentine tango, and an expansive timeline of Afro-Cuban styles. Cohen has performed for audiences in New York’s Village Vanguard, Jazz Standard, Iridium, The Jazz Gallery, and the JVC Jazz Festival. She has also appeared at the Chicago Jazz Festival, Washington DC’s Kennedy Center, San Francisco’s Yoshi’s, Boston’s Regatta Bar, the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Monterey Jazz Festival, and the Montreal Jazz Festival. Cohen’s July 2007 engagement at the Village Vanguard in New York was a historic one: Cohen is the first female reed player, and the first Israeli to headline at the club.
Cohen’s accomplishments have been recognized in a flurry of awards and distinctions from critics and fans alike: She topped the Rising Star-Clarinet category in Down Beat Magazine’s critics’ poll in both 2007 and 2008, and placed prominently in a total of four categories including Rising Star Jazz artist – where she ranked second and was the only female artist to make the list. Cohen was also mentioned on Down Beat’s readers’ poll in 2007 and 2008. The Jazz Journalists’ Association named Anat Cohen Clarinetist of the Year in 2007 through 2010, the first time in history of the awards that an artist has earned top clarinet honors four years running. Noir and Poetical both appeared on many year-end best-of summary lists, including those of Paste Magazine, the New York Sun, Slate, Jazz Times and others. |
