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Anat Cohen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 3, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: ANZIC RECORDS
• ASIN: B0009298WK
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #117,684 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 2nd counterpoint, May 31, 2007

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justthisonce (puntagordaflusa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Place and Time (Audio CD)

I don't write reviews for anything on Amazon, but I am this time to back up what was said in the (at this time) 2 positive reviews and as a counterpoint to the one negative review. One of the positive reviews states you'll either get it or you won't; obviously the reviewer who did not like it does not get it. In his short review he states that this is "light jazz" and goes on to lament his inability to stop time and live in a very small dimension (i'm paraphrasing a bit). While there are tracks that could be played on light jazz stations, the same could be said of some of Miles' or Coltranes' ballads, but that doesn't make them light jazz, just as this is not. It is a shame that Amazon still does not have her 2 2007 releases available. I had to go the Anzic Label website to buy them. You won't be sorry in purchasing her music as she weaves a lot into her playing that -yes, not everyone will get.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars She's A Star, May 12, 2007

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Earscape (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Place and Time (Audio CD)

I have been reading a lot about Ms. Cohen. She seems to have been making some history recently: she is the only female horn player (and the only Israeli) ever to headline at the Village Vanguard. She is the only person ever to get citations in 5 categories in the annual Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll (2007). She is the only woman ever chosen as "Up and coming jazz musician" of the year by the global Jazz Journalists Association...and the only person ever to get the aformentioned nod and win a best instrumentalist category (clarinet in her case). Then...there are feature articles about her in places like the Washington Post. She's playing at the Newport Jazz festival this year. All the foregoing struck me as a lot of smoke...for there not to be any fire. So I bought her three albums as a leader and the Waverly Seven (of which she is a member) album "YO! BOBBY". Now.. I understand the kudos. She is an extraordinary musician. She has a warm, solid tone on all 5 of her instruments. Her improvising is extraordinarily creative yet artfully restrained....as opposed to what I hear from the legions of Brecker, Potter, Coltrane would be clones out there. Her original compositions have something to say. I love her taste in cover tunes. I get it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I got it !!!!!!, August 20, 2007

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svsugui (reston virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Place and Time (Audio CD)

Oh yes, did I get it!!! Where has she been hiding? This is super stuff. I dont want to put anyone down, but to somebody not enjoy this music to the point of criticizing it, I don't get it. How can somebody not recognize talent and encourage new talent, to say the least. The compositions are great, the arrangements are excellent, the improvisations as well. Come on, let's recognize good music and enjoy it.