The poll-winning, critically acclaimed international clarinet star Anat Cohen played two concerts with The Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra in February. The concerts, billed as "A World View of Jazz" were among the highlights of the 20th anniversary season of the SRJO, co-directed by Clarence Acox and Michael Brockman. The sold-out Sunday concert at Kirkland Performance Center was recorded for Jazz Northwest and broadcast on Sunday, March 15.
Born in Tel Aviv where she began her music education, Anat Cohen came to the US to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston. There she came in contact with musicians from Latin America and developed a great love for music of Brazil, Cuba, Argentina and Colombia. She plays music representative of those countries and others in this concert with the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra. She is particularly adept at Brazilian music including choro, the predecessor of samba and bossa nova. She will return to this area to take part in a choro workshop and concert at Centrum April 22-26.
Anat Cohen's eighth CD as a leader, Luminosa, will be released next week. Her quartet played five nights at Jazz Standard in New York City last week to introduce the new release.
Jazz Northwest is recorded and produced by Jim Wilke, exclusively for 88.5 KPLU. The program airs Sundays at 2 PM Pacific and is also available as a podcast at jazznw.org after the broadcast. Next week's Jazz Northwest (3/22) will feature a concert by the JazzEd New Works Ensemble directed by Wayne Horvitz at the Seattle Art Museum. The New Works Ensemble was the recipient of the 2014 Seattle Jazz Experience Best in Festival award in the high school division.
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