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| Anat Cohen Hits Hollywood Bowl This Weekend Cohen will perform with Bill Cosby's Cos of Good Music band on June 13, followed by a performance leading her own quartet - featuring Jason Lindner on piano, Joe Martin on bass, and Daniel Freedman on drums - on June 14. These Playboy Jazz performances kick off a busy season for Cohen. Next week, June 16, she returns to NYC for the ASCAP Awards where she will receive the Jazz Wall of Fame Prize, and the Jazz Journalists Awards where she is nominated for Clarinetist of the Year, an award she has won two years running. Anat will also play two stretches at the legendary Village Vanguard in NYC this summer. She begins with a June 23 - 28 run with the 3 Cohens sextet (featuring Anat and her brothers Avishai and Yuval). From June 30 - July 5, Anat will lead a tribute to Benny Goodman at the Vanguard called "Benny Goodman and Beyond, " celebrating the incomparable clarinetist's centennial year. She'll be backed on those dates by a stellar rhythm section comprised of pianist Benny Green, bassist Peter Washington and drummer Lewis Nash. Dates at the Montreal Jazz Festival and George Wein's Jazz Festival 55 will follow in July and August. Cohen's latest album, 'Notes From the Village, ' reached #1 on the CMJ Jazz chart and has received across-the-board critical praise. In a 4-star review, Downbeat called the album "killer" adding that Cohen mixes "a gift for melody and an improvisational fluidity that has few peers today." write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Jazz News :: home page |