Anat Cohen Quartetinho

Clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen has won hearts and minds around the globe with her expressive virtuosity and magnetic stage presence, earning esteem both as a musician’s musician and as a performer who charms new recruits to the jazz art like few others. With her acclaimed albums, sold-out world tours and Grammy Award nominations adding up over the past two and a half decades —not to mention the glowing profiles by such totemic outlets as NPR’s Fresh Air and The New York Times—it has become apparent that the Brooklyn-based Cohen has evolved into one of the music’s great border-bounding leaders, as not only an artist but as an educator, an ambassador. At the core of this, there is always her jubilant, ever-exploratory music-making, as a soloist, bandleader, collaborator, and composer. Revered journalist and jazz sage Nat Hentoff encapsulated her artistry this way: “Anat does what all authentic musicians do: She tells stories from her own experiences that are so deeply felt that they are very likely to connect listeners to their own dreams, desires and longings.” 

Coehn’s prolific series of releases via her Anzic Records label have seen her range from infectious swingers to lilting balladry, from small groups to larger ensembles and back again, exploring a world of music along the way. Bloom, Cohen’s 21st album as a leader or co-leader and the second with her small group Quartetinho, was issued to rave reviews and a hit trans-Atlantic tour in 2024, with All About Jazz applauding the band’s “daring virtuosity and soulful joie de vivre.” Hot on the heels of that release comes a live album, out in March 2025: Interaction, which presents the clarinetist as part of The 3 Cohens—the long-running family band that also stars her brothers, trumpeter Avishai and saxophonist Yuval (both ECM artists)—recorded in concert with Germany’s WDR Big Band. Along with a Grammy nomination for Triple Helix, the second album by her Tentet, Anat has received Grammy nods for two albums devoted to the sounds of Brazil: Outra Coisa: The Music of Moacir Santos (with guitarist Marcello Gonçalves) and Rosa Dos Ventos (with Trio Brasileiro). DownBeat declared that Cohen “is now to the clarinet what Stan Getz was to the tenor saxophone in the 1960s: a jazz musician who speaks the language so fluently that she has become a beacon of Brazilian music to the larger jazz world.” She has toured from across North and South America to Europe, Asia and India, headlining at the Newport, Umbria and North Sea jazz festivals as well as at Chicago’s Symphony Center, SFJAZZ’s Miner Auditorium, and such hallowed clubs as New York’s Village Vanguard. 

To learn more about Anat Cohe, please visit her website.

Vitor Gonçalves is a pianist, accordionist, composer and arranger from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After an illustrious career as an in demand musician in Brazil, playing with such icons as Hermeto Pascoal, Maria Bethânia, Itiberê Zwarg, and many others, he made the move to New York City, where he currently resides.

Since arriving here in 2012, he has garnered much acclaim and built a star lighted resumé, including features in NPR’s Jazz Night in America, hosted by Christian McBride and The New York Times as a guest of the renowned Spok Frevo Orquestra. A frequent resident on the stages of Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Jazz Standard, and the Jazz Gallery, he both leads his own projects, and collaborates with figures in the New York scene such as Anat Cohen, Vinícius Cantuária, Anthony Wilson, Cyro Baptista, and Yotam Silberstein.

He also has played in Jazz Festivals and venues around the world, such as Newport Jazz, Jazz à Vienne, Umbria Jazz Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, and the Coliseum in Lisbon, Portugal.

Vitor moved to New York in 2012 to deepen his pursuit of Jazz and its connection with Brazilian music, and to explore the diverse musical melting pot that is New York City. It is here that he began leading his own group and forming new collectives, while pursuing a Masters Degree at City College. In 2017 he released his debut album on Sunnyside Records, Vitor Gonçalves Quartet, featuring Dan Weiss (drums), Thomas Morgan (bass), and Todd Neufeld (guitar). The album was reviewed with 4 and half stars at Downbeat jazz magazine.

Other groups he co-leads are “SanfoNYa Brasileira”, an accordion trio with Eduardo Belo on bass and Vanderlei Pereira on drums, and “Regional de NY”, one of the biggest representatives of Choro music (a rich Brazilian genre) in the USA. Both groups released an original album, the former with Steve Wilson as a guest and the latter with Fred Hersch.

He got two nominations for the Grammy Awards 2020, for Best Latin Jazz album with Thalma de Freitas and for Best Large Jazz Ensemble with Anat Cohen Tentet.

To learn more about Vitor Gonçalves, visit his website.

Tal Mashiach is a Grammy nominated multi-instrumentalist, performer and composer based in Brooklyn, New York, combining his skills to create one of the most prominent and original voices in the world\Jazz music scene.

Born in Israel in 1993, Tal studied classical guitar from age 10 and began studying double bass at the age of 17. At the age of 18 Tal won First prize at the national guitar competition at the “Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance” and received annual scholarships from the “America – Israel Cultural Foundation” for classical & jazz studies.

Upon receiving a full scholarship to the prestigious university “The New  School” Mashiach moved to New York in 2015. He has performed and recorded with leading artists in the scene such as Anat Cohen, Avishai  Cohen, Mulatu Astatke, Jeff Ballard, Nasheet Waits, Jason Lindner, Ravi  Coltrane, Justin Brown, Shai Maestro, Omer Avital in a highly renowned  venues such as Carnegie hall, Blue note NY, Newport Jazz Festival, Lincoln  Center, Pit inn Tokyo, SFJAZZ , Umbria Jazz, Montreal jazz festival and others. 

As a band leader Tal formed various projects to fulfill his diverse musical  vision; 

“TM Street Band”- a funky world music party band, which brings out  Tal’s inner child playfulness, fusing genres with no borders. TM Street  Band has toured Europe and plays frequently in New York clubs.
“GTO Trio” a contemporary Jazz trio co-leaded with pianist Gadi Lehavi &  drummer Ofri Nehemya. the Trio has toured in Japan, Europe played at the blue note NYC and headlined the international Jerusalem jazz festival.

Tal’s most recent project  “Tiyul”- an intimate solo album featuring his original compositions on  classical guitar and it is coming out on March 2022 on the boutique label “Anzic Records” (Anat Cohen, Avishai Cohen, Third World Love, Anat Cohen, “Now Vs Now” )

To learn more about Tal Mashiach, visit his website.

JAmes Shipp is a vibraphonist, a percussionist, a synthesist, and a songwriter. For the last decade-and-a-half he has performed, recorded, and toured the world with some of New York City’s best musicians. Trained as a jazz vibraphone soloist and accompanist, James’s post-conservatory interests have led him to become a sought-after Brazilian percussionist, a multi-instrumentalist in bands both mostly-improvised and tightly arranged, a composer of music for experimental theater, and a versatile producer of recordings, bringing to bear his knowledge of both acoustic and analog electronic instruments on a wide range of projects. 

As of late, James performs and records with much-lauded clarinetist and multiple Grammy Award nominee Anat Cohen’s Quartetinho, the Anat Cohen Tentet, Jean Rohe and the End of the World Show, Banda Magda, the Nadje Noordhuis Quintet, and Christina Courtin (Pilot Violet). He has recorded and performed with Paquito d’Rivera, Kurt Elling, Snarky Puppy, Bokante, Kate McGarry, Becca Stevens, Bob Lanzetti, The Kronos Quartet, and Sting. He was nominated for two Grammies in 2020 for his contributions on vibes and percussion to the Anat Cohen Tentet’s Triple Helix and Miho Hazama and M Unit’s Dancer in Nowhere. He is the percussionist for Mike LaValle’s Clube de Choro do Brooklyn every Sunday at Barbés in Park Slope.

James has been a bandleader, composer, producer, and workshop facilitator for Carnegie Hall’s social impact programs for the last decade, working with thousands of people of all ages in prisons, jails, hospitals, shelters, and schools throughout New York City. He has been the musical director and producer of Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby Project since 2019, and will be music-directing and producing its Tenth Anniversary Celebration Concert in Zankel Hall in June 2023. Two of the lullabies he co-wrote through that work were featured on the 2018 Universal Music Group release Hopes and Dreams, sung by mezzo-soprano Joyce Di Donato and soprano Pretty Yende. James was the director and producer of Carnegie Hall’s youth-driven, genre-crossing Future Music Project Ensemble from its formation in 2016 until it ended during the pandemic in 2021, and was the creative director and lead educator of the music program at Sing Sing Correctional Facility for its 2015/16 season.  James was a faculty artist at the Silk Road Ensemble‘s 2016 Global Musician Workshop, where he taught Brazilian, Irish, and Finnish tunes to students from all over the world.

To learn more about JAmes Shipp, visit his website.