Thursday October 04, 2012
from jazzinspace.blogspot.com
The clarinetist and multi-reedist Anat Cohen has a sound that speaks in an array of brilliant colors. As a performer and leader, (she recently kicked off the release of ‘Claroscuro’ on Anzic Records with a six night gig at the Village Vanguard, a comfortable space that she called ‘one big living room’) Cohen knows how to pull a listener in, feeding on the attention of her audience as much as her quartet to rapturously blow through standards old and new and absorbing originals, too. She’s a charmer who connects emotionally and you walk away both thrilled and thoroughly entertained ‘” all of which is nicely conveyed on the disc.
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