Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

It Begins

Heralded by critics around the country as a uniquely inventive artist and truly elite player, Anat Cohen is among the fastest-rising stars in jazz. With buoyant charm and vitality, the Israel-born saxophonist and clarinetist cleverly traverses an astounding breadth of stylistic terrain, from Argentine tango, Brazilian choro and Afro-Cuban rhythms to soul and modern and traditional jazz idioms. Writes the Washington Post, “[She] has expanded the vocabulary of jazz with a distinctive accent of her own.” Friday, June 5, she takes to the Flynn MainStage as part of a double bill with jazz ingenue Esperanza Spalding, kicking off the 26th annual Burlington Discover Jazz Festival.