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Anat Cohen

Triple Helix

Name: Triple Helix
Brand: Anzic Records
Price: 20.0 USD
Availability: InStock

01 Milonga Del Angel 6:29

02 Triple Helix: i first 11:16

03 Triple Helix: ii for Anat 5:37

04 Triple Helix: iii last 5:03

05 Miri 4:22

06 Footsteps & Smiles 4:53

07 La Llorona 7:49

08 Lonesome Train 4:35

09 Morning Melody 1:18

Grammy nominee, Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, 2020.

Continuing to blaze a trail as a poll-winning clarinetist and far-sighted bandleader, Cohen delves into the wealth of ideas summoned by Lev-Ari on “Triple Helix”: classical and contemporary sounds, Americana lyricism, Latin and Middle Eastern rhythms and more. The clarinet trill at the outset hints briefly at Rhapsody in Blue, subtly proposing a 21st-century perspective on Gershwin’s model of hybrid-genre works for the concert hall. The Tentet has grown from workshops at Shapeshifter Lab in Brooklyn to multi-night runs of rousing club experiences at the Jazz Standard in Manhattan as well as high-profile engagements at the Newport, Monterey and SFJazz Festivals.

Credits

Anat Cohen – clarinet

Nadje Noordhuis – trumpet, flügelhorn

Nick Finzer – trombone

Owen Broder – baritone sax

Christopher Hoffman – cello

James Shipp – vibraphone, percussion

Vitor Gonçalves – piano, accordion

Sheryl Bailey – guitar

Tal Mashiach – bass

Anthony Pinciotti – drums

Oded Lev-Ari – musical director

Recorded by: Brian Montgomery (Sear Sound, NYC, January 2019)
Mixed by: Brian Montgomery
Mastered by: Mark Wilder (Battery Mastering Studios, April 2019)
Cover Artwork by: Milton Glaser
Additional Design by: Michal Levy
Band Photo by: AnneRyanPhoto.com
Produced by: Anat Cohen & Oded Lev-Ari

Press

“An Everest … a significant addition to the clarinet repertoire … a work of considerable expressive reach … Cohen sounding like a musician transformed”
— Chicago Tribune

“Cohen repeatedly soars when she plays the clarinet. She combines dazzling virtuosity and deep feeling with a command of nuance, texture and daring that is uniquely her own. Equally impressive is the way she can perform all manner of jazz, Latin music, klezmer, blues and classical with equal expertise and élan.”
— George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune

“a new album by the tentet ups the ante—arguably to a career high for Cohen … The first concerto written for Cohen, it exceeds in scope, complexity and, perhaps, emotional impact, anything the tentet previously had tackled … a model of efficient authorship—capturing the clarinetist's wide-ranging predilections in one sweeping and powerful statement”
— Phillip Lutz, DownBeat

“Triple Helix may be the purest synthesis of their relationship to date … suffused with Cohen's innate talent for uniting the pain and joy of the blues into a single breath … Lev-Ari's noir tendencies are on full display throughout, bringing a gentle touch of melancholy to balance the dramatic surges of intensity … Triple Helix gives every indication that there's no end in sight.”
— Bandcamp Daily

“Cohen's commanding clarinet bursts forth with incredible dexterity and bristles with energy and invention … She reserves her most dramatic playing for the Mexican folk song "La Llorona," which Lev-Ari surrounds with lush, Gil Evans-inspired horn voicings.”
— Paste Magazine