Anat Cohen Quartet A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

“Anat 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,” reported jazz magazine DownBeat about the Israeli clarinettist’s appearance at the Northfield Jazz Festival in 2008. Cohen was born in Tel Aviv, but has lived in New York since 1999 (having graduated from Berklee), and there is not a single jazz or near-jazz genre that she won’t have a go at. She has been voted clarinettist of the year for the past six years by the American Jazz Journalists Association, and both the profession and the general public have been equally enthusiastic about her five independent albums (the last one came out in 2012). She is at home with classical jazz standards, Afro-Cuban music, Brazilian rhythms and klezmer, but her style is incomparable. As the Chicago Tribune put it: “The lyric beauty of her tone, the easy fluidity of her technique and the extroverted manner of her delivery make this music accessible to all.”