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Elizabeth Applebaum

Special to the Jewish News

W

hen Anat Cohen plays, the
sound is like fireflies spar-
kling and shimmering on
a summer evening, or a winter after-
noon filled with friends and steaming
hot chocolate and a snowball fight, or
a spring morning when flowers pop
their tiny heads out of the ground or
the smell of golden leaves that tremble
in the fall breeze.
Israeli-born jazz legend Anat Cohen,
a master on both the saxophone and
clarinet, plays music that sounds alive.
The Jewish Community Center of
Metropolitan Detroit and the Detroit
Jazz Festival will host Cohen, playing
with the Wayne State University Faculty
Jazz Quartet, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,
July 20, at the Berman Center for the
Performing Arts in West Bloomfield.
Cohen, who plays everything from
traditional jazz to classical to Brazilian
choro and tango, was just honored,
for the fifth year in a row, with the
Clarinetist of the Year Award from the
Jazz Journalists Association.

Q: How did you get started play-
ing your first instrument?
A: When I was 12, I was taken to the
conservatory in Tel Aviv. I chose the
saxophone from the storage room. I
liked it because I like the sound of it
and because you can take it apart in
small pieces and take it with you.

Q: How long does it take to
become really good on the clarinet
or saxophone?
A: To be really good? I'm still work-
ing on it.

Q: Do you have a favorite of the
two instruments?
A: That's like asking, "Who do you
like more, Mom or Dad?" It's hard.
They each make you feel different, and
they bring out a different side of you.

Q: How much of your playing is
influenced by others — the great
Benny Goodman, for example —
and how much is what you create
on your own?
A: For myself and for all musicians,
it's very hard not to be influenced by
what you hear. Whatever we come
across, whatever musical genre or
style, it always stays. No matter what
we create, it always includes bits and
pieces of what we collected from what
we like.
The challenge I am facing, many
musicians face, is how to become free
inside the music. We practice and we
play to let go of any obstacles. The
style is changing from one day to
another; we're never the same. You
wake up in a good mood; the way you
play is a reflection of who you are that
day. Sound is definitely an evolution-
ary process.

Q: What's it like to be on stage?
A: Fun! We [musicians] have a
choice of who to be on stage with, and
I find myself often with musicians I
love, respect and trust. It's an exciting
experience to create music and have
an exchange between the audience
and musicians. It's very powerful.

Q: What's your favorite kind of
music to play?
A: Brazilian, slow basso nova, fast
choro, pretty melodies.

Q: What are you passionate about
other than music?
A: I like the water, the beach, look-
ing and seeing far away. I like bridges.
Living in New York and traveling a lot,
I have both a love and fear of nature. I
like to be outside. Whenever I travel, I
always look and find a new park and
walk and run and jog a little bit.

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Anat Cohen performs 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 20, at the Berman
Center for the Performing Arts, 6600 W. Maple Road, in West
Bloomfield. The cost of the event, which also is sponsored by the WSU
Department of Music and the JCC Stephen Gottlieb Music Festival, is
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