The professor of music had an articles published in a professional women arts journal.
Professor of Music Thomas Erdmann had a 6,000-word article published in the July 2015 issue of WomenArts Quarterly Journal.
The article is on Israeli-born jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and record label president Anat Cohen. The article focuses solely on her jazz clarinet playing (she is now the nine consecutive time winner of the DownBeat Magazine Critics pole for best clarinetist), her work as a record label president (she founded and runs Anzic Records which has released 44 different recordings), her work as a woman musician in a male-dominated field, and her composing (she was presented the ASCAP Wall of Fame Prize for composition in 2009.)
In a few months, Erdmann will have different 6,000-word article on Cohen published in the professional saxophone journal, Saxophone Today. That article will focus on her soprano and tenor saxophone playing (she has been listed as a Rising Star on those instruments in the latest Downbeat Magazine Critics Pole), her work as a band leader, her wide musical vision as best seen in the many different areas of music she’s explored in her recordings (including authentic renditions of music by the Brazilian composer Milton Nascimento incorporating the greatest Brazilian musicians of the day, big band music, reimagining electronica in acoustic settings by playing the music of Flying Lotus, creolized New Orleans chansons, retro Artie Shaw swing, African grooves, Jacques Brel songs, Israeli melodies, Brazilian choro, samba, and straight-ahead jazz, to list just a few of the musical avenues she’s walked at the highest artistic levels), her work in the 3 Cohens band alongside her two siblings (trumpeter Avishai and soprano saxophonist Yuval), and how she became the number call jazz woodwind artist in New York.