[Dixielandjazz] "Three Cohens" with Jon Hendricks reviewed - Buffalo News, November 27, 2011

[Robert Ringwald]

Three Cohens with Special Guest Jon Hendricks: Family (Anzic)
by Jeff Simon
Buffalo News, November 27, 2011
It's no surprise anymore that the jazz mainstream is not only alive and well and
living in the Israeli jazz emigre precincts of Brooklyn (especially with the Cohen
family), but that, by now, some of the most veteran jazz players in New York know
it. When you've got Jon Hendricks -- the most regal figure in all of vocal bebop
-- sitting in with the Three Cohens (that's how the family bills it when they perform
together) for a version of "Sunny Side of the Street" and drummer Gregory Hutchinson
putting snap into everything, you begin to understand how much musicians depend on
young Anat, Yuval and Avishai Cohen to keep jazz traditions going as beautifully
as this. When they play Ellington's "The Mooche," or grand favorites "Tiger Rag"
or "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans" or "Roll 'Em Pete," the pleasure
is pretty much unalloyed. But the way their own tunes fit in with those jazz classics
is a bit of a knockout.


--Bob Ringwald
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