Jazz Clarinetist Anat Cohen

Jazz Clarinetist Anat Cohen is winner of the Jazz Journalists Association award Jazz Clarinetist of the Year in 2010. Awesome, did you know she won in 2007, 2008, and 2009? The Jazz Journalist Association Jazz Awards were announced on June 14th, 2010. Finalists for the JJA Jazz Awards honor excellence in music-making and music documentation. These musicians are nominated by 60 professional Jazz Journalists Association member. In 2010, the nominations included 41 categories. Congratulations to jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen for winning again.

So, I went to You Tube as many do now-a-days to look up Ms. Cohen. She is fantastic. Every clarinet player should know her name.

Below are some of her video highlights:

Anat Cohen, clarinet, and Howard Aldin, guitar, performing on Aug 7,2008 in Brooklyn, NY, Bargemusic Jazz. Playing After You've Gone.

Anat Cohen and John Pizzarelli -- I Wanna Be Around

The sold out debut of Waverly Seven at the Jazz Standard NYC: Anat Cohen, Avishai Cohen, Joel Frahm, Manuel Valera, Barak Mori, Daniel Freedman, Jason Lindner.

Stefano Bollani & Anat Cohen in duo ad Orvieto per Umbria Jazz Winter 2008

With Paquito D'Rivera, "I love Anat." Amazing clarinet jazz duo here...

Anat Cohen, clarinet; John Scofield & Gilad Hekselman, guitars; Joe Martin, bass; and Daniel Freedman, Drums

Howard and Anat (on tenor and soprano sax) with bassist Joe Fitzgerald and Rob Garcia on drums, playing Limehouse Blues combined with saxophonist Flip Phillips' variation, Hashimoto's Blues, at a Brooklyn Music Wide Open concert presented by Connection Works.

Jazz Clarinetist Anat Cohen deserves her award and again congrats. For a list of Jazz Clarinetists of the Year, please visit here.