Anat Cohen

Anat Cohen
Howard Alden and Anat Cohen at the 2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Background information
Birth name	Anat Cohen
Origin	Tel Aviv, Israel
Genres	Jazz
Occupation(s)	Clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, bandleader
Instrument(s)	clarinet, tenor saxophone
Years active	1999–present
Labels	Anzic Records
Website	www.anatcohen.com

Anat Cohen is an Israeli jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and bandleader.

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. 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. She has developed a notable work of research about Brazilian music, especially the Choro. 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, Peter Washington, and Lewis Nash).

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
• Anat Cohen discography at MusicBrainz
• 2008 profile of Cohen on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz radio program