A nurturer of talent, pianist Fred Hersch has taught a panoply of current stars, Brad Mehldau, Ethan Iverson, and Jason Moran among them. But when Israeli clarinetist Anat Cohen arrived to collaborate with Hersch, she came as an equal with a tone as big as the sky and a fertile, limitless imagination. Perfect for Hersch, who, like Bill Evans before him, is a genius for whom all possibilities emerge from the romantic. Cohen has been dazzling audiences with the generous sounds she gets out of perhaps jazz's most neglected instrument. Along the way she has topped the "DownBeat" critics' and readers' polls as Clarinetist of the Year annually since 2010. Cohen's brashly beautiful style makes for a perfect complement to Hersch.