“A Long Story sings with a floating, ethereal, Middle Eastern-flavored charm and a gorgeous group dynamic. No review, no blocky stack of paragraphs can do justice to its unadorned organic beauty. It has to be heard”.
---Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz

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“A Long Story” is now available at fine record stores on the planet, and at www.amazon.com

“Peel” is available at www.cdbaby.com/cd/anatfort and at www.amazon.com

"...Vividly meditative solo style and solid pulse...'Peel' shows how
purposefully she can keep a jazz ensemble afloat."
---Gary Giddins, The Village Voice

"...From laid-back to brash...it's in her solo performances that Fort makes her strongest and most consistent impression...from joyful variations...to brooding melancholy...to reflective lyricism...her talent as a composer and performer seem beyond doubt. This all original program confirms her strengths."
---David Lewis, Cadence Magazine

"A fine Israeli-born jazz pianist. Fort's tunes incorporate strange harmonic twists, bringing tension to her generally introspective playing; strong grasp of dynamics...Fort reveals an intensity lurking below her contemplative surface. 'The Dance', a snappy calypso-rock number, finds Fort mining smart intervallic concepts on her solo. 'The Bridge' lets each soloist start with an unaccompanied
break before the band enters in driving swing time. There are hints of Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea in Fort's concept, but her shrewd originality comes through loud and clear."
---David R. Adler, AllMusic.com

"...Diatonic lyricism...free-flowing, unpretentious...echoes of early Chick Corea..."
---Jim Aikin, Keyboard Magazine

"...Meditative...delightfullylighthearted...passion...playfulness...range of mood and dynamics...her compositions are sometimes moody, thoughtful and spirited all in one."
---Mishla Schwartz, Jazz Now Magazine