Anat Cohen Debut At The Village Vanguard

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On Monday July 2, Cohen will be featured on tenor sax and clarinet performing music from her big band outing Noir - which Downbeat said could be a classic - featuring the Anzic Orchestra. " title="Anat Cohen Debut At The Village Vanguard">Critically acclaimed Israeli jazz star Anat Cohen, already dubbed "the next major voice on the tenor saxophone and clarinet" by the NY Sun, will make her debut at New York's legendary Village Vanguard, July 3-8, preceded by a rare substituting gig for the famed Village Vanguard Orchestra on July 2.
On Monday July 2, Cohen will be featured on tenor sax and clarinet performing music from her big band outing 'Noir' - which Downbeat said "could be a classic" - featuring the Anzic Orchestra.

Mondays are historically reserved for the Village Vanguard Orchestra making this a truly special evening. Her fifteen piece ensemble includes many marquee names, Cohen's brother Avishai Cohen on trumpet and flugelhorn, Joel Frahm on sax, Erik Friedlander on cello, among others.

On July 3-8, the Anat Cohen Quartet will perform music from 'Poetica, ' her quartet-plus-strings release "showcasing Cohen's mastery of the clarinet" (Washington Post). Joining her will be bassist Omer Avital, who arranged the music, drummer Daniel Freeman and pianist Ed Simon.

In May, Cohen played sold-out shows at NYC's Jazz Standard and the Kennedy Center's "Women in Jazz Festival." Since releasing her two new albums 'Poetica' and 'Noir' in April, Cohen has garnered stellar reviews from outlets like the Washington Post, the New York Times, Downbeat, the Village Voice, AllAboutJazz.com and more. On June 17 she'll be featured in a segment on NPR's "Weekend Edition Sunday."

Idiomatically conversant with modern and traditional jazz, classical music, Brazilian choro, Argentine tango, and an expansive timeline of Afro-Cuban styles, Cohen has established herself as one of the primary voices of her generation on both the tenor saxophone and clarinet since arriving in New York in 1999.

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