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Israeli Saxophonist Anat Cohen’s CD Noir combines her love of Big Band music with Brazilian music, sometimes in the same song, as in her version of Samba De Orfeu/Struttin’ With Some Barbecue.

It also unites Anat with her childhood friend, pianist Oded Lev-Ari, who arranged and conducts the little big band + 3 cellos, which combines fine Panamerican musicians including drummer Antonio Sanchez and cellist Erik Friedlander. Covering tunes from Johnny Ray to Sun Ra, Anat’s saxes and clarinet span the history of classic jazz, from New Orleans fluidity to the warm bluster of Ben Webster.

Playlist

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Innuendo Out The Other
Philip DeGruy
Degruy-Gruy Music
NYC 6013 2 (US Import)
Philip DeGruy, Innuendo Out The Other
15 seconds (excerpt)
(solo 17-string elec guitar, fingerstyle; v quirky, virtuosic & humorous, more or less a bent-boogie)

1422
CD Cut 7, 'Regresso' (Return)
Jose Agostinho/ Amilcar Cabrail
Control
RCA BMG 74321 836682 (Through BMG)
Cesaria Evora - 'Sao Vicente Di Longe'
3:57
(lush, notalgic & elegant w sax & classical guitar soloists, piano, strings, & the vocals shared between Cesaria & one of the more gorgeous male voices - Brazil's Caetano Veloso)

Segue

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CD Cut 3 - 'Carnaval de São Vicente'
Pedro Manuel Rodrigues
Lusafrica Sarl SACEM
Anzic Records Anzic 1201 www.anatcohen.com, www.anzicrecords.com
Anat Cohen and the Anzic Orchestra - 'Noir'
5:13
(Bowed and plucked cellos, then mute brass set up Anat and her clarinet to soar over big band's interpretation of a Cape Verdean groove. Her brother Avishai Cohen solos on trumpet, then a quiet end with plucked cellos and clarinet.)

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CD Cut 6 - 'You Never Told Me That You Care'
Sun Ra/Hobart Dotson
Enterplanetary Koncepts BMI
Anzic Records Anzic 1201 www.anatcohen.com, www.anzicrecords.com
Anat Cohen and the Anzic Orchestra - 'Noir'
5:00
(Anat's rich tenor saxophone struts its way Ben Webster-like through this arc of a ballad with muted horns, flute and bowed strings)

Segue

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CD Cut 3 - 'A Boy in a-hus'
Eugene Ball
Assume AMCOS
ABC 476 6237 ( in Australia through Universal.
Available at ABC shops and online: www.abcshop.com.au )
The Bennetts Lane Big Band - 'The Snip'
5:06
(Austral comp and perf: Big band ballad Jamie Oehlers' tenor saxophone feature)

1446
CD 2, Cut 1 - 'Wolfie'
Composed, Arranged and Conducted by Guy Barker
MCPS and PRS
Global Mix GM2CD02 www.globalmix.co.uk
Guy Barker Jazz Orchestra featuring Rosario Giuliani - 'The Amadeus Project'
10:10
(Very complex yet accessible big band piece with varied repeating motifs, featuring Guy's trumpet, Phil Todd's flute, Rosario Giuliani's alto saxophone, Graeme Blevins' tenor sax and Barnaby Dickinson's trombone, with a tight, driving rhythm section including organ, crossfading into a coda for piano and trumpet)

1457
CD Cut 4 - 'Do It'
Johnny Griffin
SDRM
Anzic Records Anzic 1201 www.anatcohen.com, www.anzicrecords.com
Anat Cohen and the Anzic Orchestra - 'Noir'
Two minute excerpt
(Up big band piece saxophone feature from Billy Drewes' rough-voiced tenor, Ted Nash's alto and Scott Robinson's baritone before Anat solos on tenor sax.)

Presenter

Lucky Oceans

Producer

Lucky Oceans