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Anat Cohen (Rodrigo Lopes)
Posted inMusic

Israeli jazz musician Anat Cohen will swing by SFJAZZ for a 50th birthday show

by J. Staff November 19, 2025November 24, 2025

In 2007, an Israeli musician in her early 30s was named “Clarinetist of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association. Anat Cohen earned the accolade again in 2008. And 2009. […]

Pianist Noam Lemish grew up in Tel Aviv and studied jazz at Sonoma State University. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inMusic

Pianist and Sonoma State alum Noam Lemish returns to Bay Area for jazz shows

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert March 6, 2024March 6, 2024
John Zorn performs in Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center, New York City, July 30, 2016. (Photo/JTA-Ebet Roberts-Redferns via Getty Images)
Posted inMusic

The avant-garde Jewish music of John Zorn is finally streaming. And some of his fans are mad.

by Miri Villerius January 16, 2024
Willie "The Lion" Smith in his apartment in Manhattan, ca. January 1947. (Photo/William P. Gottlieb-Library of Congress)
Posted inMusic

Remembering Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith, one of jazz’s first Jewish stars

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert November 22, 2023November 22, 2023
Or Bareket will appear at the Black Cat in San Francisco May 11-13. (Photo/Maria Jarzyna)
Posted inMusic

Multi-dimensional Israeli bassist Or Bareket coming to S.F.’s Black Cat

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert May 1, 2023May 1, 2023
Pamela Rose performing a Wild Women of Song show in 2010.
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: Jazz vocalist Pamela Rose on singing the blues and the Jewish women of Tin Pan Alley

by Liz Harris March 30, 2023March 30, 2023
L. Peter Callender as Louis Armstrong in "Satchmo at the Waldorf." (Photo/Dave Lepori)
Posted inTheater

‘Satchmo at the Waldorf’: San Jose play probes Black jazz great’s ties with Jews

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten February 10, 2023February 13, 2023
Musician John Schott is the mind behind an upcoming all-night rendition of "'Round Midnight." (Photo/Cookie Segelstein)
Posted inMusic

Theolonious Monk’s masterpiece becomes an all-night Shavuot musical meditation

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert May 23, 2022May 24, 2022
Jeff Morgan of Covenant Winery is ready for the patio jazz series. (Photo/Courtesy Kimberly Noelle Charles)
Posted inSmall Bites

Wine and jazz on the Covenant patio; Fermentation maven SandorKraut comes to town

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 19, 2022June 7, 2022
Jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen
Posted inMusic

After hunkering down in Brazil, jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen brings a taste of Rio to S.F.

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert March 24, 2022March 24, 2022

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