Anat Cohen - anyone else?


Has anyone else checked out this musician?  I saw her with Pat Matheney and bought her album. she's now in my Roon playlist.

 

This is a great album:   Anat Cohen - Claroscuro

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I love her clarinet playing. It's an instrument that doesn't get enough attention in Jazz.

She played on the first album by the all-female group Artemis.  They have 3 albums out and all are worth a listen.

I think I have all the albums she plays on.  Vinyl and cd.  I can also listen to her on Qobuz I guess.  Anyway she is a very accomplished clarinetist, who I hope will mature into a great artist given time and more experience.  She certainly has the the chops.  She needs time more than anything else to mature.  At this stage in her career she is pushing herself, perhaps trying to prove something to herself as much as to anyone else about what she can do.  It is clear she can do whatever she thinks of.  She would be wise to work on feel and swing more.  Less notes, more space.

I had an album of hers I liked a lot and then met her a few years ago at a concert I mixed. Amazing...and a great band. Weirdly, I was told this was part of a series for children (a Sunday afternoon show) which was news to her and the band...lots of parents with their kids showed up and were a GREAT audience, and exactly zero kids left or cried or seemed antsy. 

@viridian and @tomic601  I'm not sure how I landed with Chiaroscuro as my first buy, but I play it a lot and have not been able to move on to the dozen and a half other albums on Qobuz yet  . . .  will have to do that, and check out her siblings too. I love her Clarinet playing, and style.