# CD review: Anat Cohen Tentet – Triple Helix 2019: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2019/06/14/cd-review-anat-cohen-tentet-triple-helix-2019-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2019-06-14T16:38:13+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**The Israeli-born saxophonist and clarinet virtuoso has become a prominent figure
on the New York scene since arriving from Tel Aviv in 1999. **

With Triple Helix, her ninth as a leader, Cohen explores some heady new territory,
including a three-movement concerto written for her tentet by longtime collaborator
and former high school pal Oded Lev-Ari. Patterned after George Gershwin s Rhapsody
in Blue, this jazz-meets-the-classics work ranges from solo clarinet to abstraction
impressionism, rock bombast and free jazz with forays into Middle Eastern music 
and lush romanticism. And through it all, Cohen s commanding clarinet bursts forth
with incredible dexterity and bristles with energy and invention. Elsewhere on Triple
Helix, Cohen s tentet turns in a faithful take on Astor Piazzolla s stirring tango
Milonga Del Angel and the leader rekindles her love of Brazilian music on her alluring
Choro Pra Miri and her spirited samba, Footsteps & Smiles. She reserves her most
dramatic playing for the Mexican folk song La Llorona, which Lev-Ari surrounds with
lush, Gil Evans-inspired horn voicings. The ace arranger also makes an intriguing,
oddball choice in tackling Gene Roland s eerily dissonant Lonesome Train, a staple
of the Stan Kenton Orchestra of the early 1950s, which has Cohen s clarinet substituting
for singer Kay Brown and trombonist Nick Finzer contributing a rather subversive
solo. (The Anat Cohen Tentet will appear at the San Francisco Jazz Festival on May
19).” – Paste April 2019 “12 Women Influencing the Future of Jazz.”

1. Milonga Del Angel
 2. Triple Helix: i first 3. Triple Helix: ii for Anat 4. Triple
Helix: iii last 5. Miri 6. Footsteps & Smiles 7. La Llorona 8. Lonesome Train 9.
Morning Melody (Epilogue)

**Anat Cohen CLARINET**
 **Oded Lev-Ari MUSICAL DIRECTOR** **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**

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