For the fourth straight year, Israeli jazz musician Anat Cohen received the clarinetist of the year award from the Jazz Journalists Association.
The awards were presented in June in New York City, where Cohen has been based since 1999.
Cohen, who also plays the tenor saxophone, is known for her versatile range. In 2007, the Tel Aviv native was the first woman and the first Israeli to headline the Village Vanguard jazz club in New York.
Cohen and her brother Avishai, who plays the trumpet, will perform at Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco on Oct. 9 as part of the San Francisco Jazz Festival. She is also scheduled to appear at the Newport Jazz Festival in August.
“She’s a strong player who is playing an instrument not many women play,”
said jazz critic and educator Howard Mandel, president of the Jazz Journalists Association.
In Israel, Cohen packs concerts and is played often on the radio. Cohen and her siblings, Yuval and Avishai, all acclaimed jazz artists, have played and recorded together as the Three Cohens. — jta