New York (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - Performing With Bill Cosby's Cos Of Good
Music Band On June 13, And Leading Her Own Acclaimed Quartet On June 14 Performances Kick Off Busy Season Of Awards And Top-Shelf Gigs For Cohen
WHO: Rising jazz star Anat Cohen
WHAT: Two performances at the Playboy Jazz Festival
WHERE: Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90068
WHEN: June 13 and 14
TICKETS: Available via Ticketmaster (https://www.ticketmaster.com)
After a 2008 LA debut that the Los Angeles Times called "irresistibly charismatic," breakout clarinetist/saxophonist/composer Anat Cohen returns in a big way this weekend with two performances at the Hollywood Bowl for the 2009 Playboy Jazz Festival.
Cohen will perform with Bill Cosby's Cos of Good Music band on June 13, followed by a performance leading her own quartet - featuring Jason Lindner on piano, Joe Martin on bass, and Daniel Freedman on drums - on June 14.
These Playboy Jazz performances kick off a busy season for Cohen. Next week, June 16, she returns to NYC for the ASCAP Awards where she will receive the Jazz Wall of Fame Prize, and the Jazz Journalists Awards where she is nominated for Clarinetist of the Year, an award she has won two years running.
Anat will also play two stretches at the legendary Village Vanguard in NYC this summer. She begins with a June 23 - 28 run with the 3 Cohens sextet (featuring Anat and her brothers Avishai and Yuval). From June 30 - July 5, Anat will lead a tribute to Benny Goodman at the Vanguard called "Benny Goodman and Beyond," celebrating the incomparable clarinetist's centennial year. She'll be backed on those dates by a stellar rhythm section comprised of pianist Benny Green, bassist Peter Washington and drummer Lewis Nash.
Dates at the Montreal Jazz Festival and George Wein's Jazz Festival 55 will follow in July and August.
Cohen's latest album, 'Notes From the Village,' reached No 1 on the CMJ Jazz chart and has received across-the-board critical praise. In a 4-star review, Downbeat called the album "killer" adding that Cohen mixes "a gift for melody and an improvisational fluidity that has few peers today."
