Artist: Anat Cohen
Title Of Album: Poetica
Year Of Release: Jan 2007
Label: Anzic Records
Genre: Jazz, World Fusion, Gentle
Quality: MP3 / Joint Stereo
Bitrate: VBR kbit/s / 44.1 Khz
Total Time: 65:12 min
Total Size: 84 mb
WebSite: www.anatcohen.com

I started to play the clarinet when I was 12. I received my early formal music education in a conservatory and in junior high school in my hometown of Tel-Aviv. At about age 16, when I decided to pursue a major in Jazz at the “Thelma Yelin” High School For The Arts, I was instructed to “bring your brother’s saxophone or…any horn... but NOT the clarinet”. For the next 15 years I played mainly tenor saxophone and only brought out my clarinet occasionally.

While attending Berklee College of Music in 1996, I met Phil Wilson, a great musician and educator. He encouraged me to play the clarinet because he felt I had my own “voice” on the instrument. After moving to NYC in 1999, I started to play different styles of music in which the clarinet is part of their tradition: Brazilian Choro, Dixieland, Colombian and Venezuelan folk music, among others. For the last seven years, I have played saxophones less and the clarinet more. I am feeling the connection with the instrument I established as a child and enjoying it more than ever... / read more /

Track Listing:
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01 - agade yapanit (a japanese tale) 06:21
02 - hofim (beaches) 06:38
03 - the purple piece 07:30
04 - eyn gedi 07:47
05 - la chanson des vieux amants 04:08
06 - lonnie's lament 07:21
07 - quando eu me chamar saudade 03:48
08 - la casa del llano 08:02
09 - nigunim 03:01
10 - cypresses 10:36