Anat Cohen - anyone else?

Will check her out. Thanks!

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.

(it's Claroscuro)

Sorry I’m late to the Anat Cohen appreciation party – busy time of year and she deserves more than a brief “me, too!”  She shares with me a great love of Brazilian music, and I never tire of listening to her play.  I went through a Marcello Gonçalves phase recently, so Outra Coisa is her first album to come to mind for me right now.  Others to check out include Artemis (on Blue Note), the Tentet recordings if you prefer a larger ensemble, Choro Ensemble or the Trio Brasileiro recordings if you want some Choro, any of the 3 Cohens together!

I cut’n’pasted this from Wikipedia ‘cuz writing about Anat’s accomplishments is so unbelievable, it feels like I’m making it up.

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" every year between 2008 and 2023 and honored as "Multi-Reedist of the Year" in 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2017 by the Jazz Journalists Association.  She has received multiple citations in DownBeat magazine's annual critics' and readers' polls in multiple categories: "Rising Star" in the tenor saxophone (2012), "Rising Star" in the soprano saxophone (2013), and top ranking in the clarinet (2010-2023).

This was obviously written in 2023.  I didn’t look it up, but she’s only 50 and still active.  I think you can safely read those date ranges ending in 2023 as continuing through 2025.  You can also tell that she occasionally dabbles on the sax.  Presumably, you can only be a Rising Star once per instrument and you have to record (release?) on >1 (reed) instrument that year to be eligible for Multi-Reedist, though

Artemis is a fine band, well worth checking out.  They’ve also been getting some acclaim recently (Downbeat Reader’s Poll Group of the Year 2023-25).  Remaining charter members are pianist & founder Renee Rosnes, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, bassist Noriko Ueda, and drummer Allison Miller. Original members Anat Cohen and vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant are no longer part of the group.  Melissa Aldana and Alexa Tarantino have rotated through the sax chair now occupied by Nicole Glover.