I was feeling a little sleepy, perhaps a bit downbeat even. Then I put on these two records and I was soon leaping around the room, full of positivity. That's what Anat Cohen's clarinet playing, with its lovely richness of tone and vibrant dancing energy, can do for you. It hit me in the way Artie Shaw's swooping lines did the first time I heard ‘Concerto For Clarinet’. The most obviously danceable of these discs is Rosa Dos Ventos, a collaboration with Trio Brasileriro celebrating coro, which developed in Rio out of a fusion of European dance forms such as the waltz and mazurka with African and South American rhythms: the quartet make a joyous sound together. Track six on the disc recorded with Marcello Gonçalves on seven-string guitar is likely to get you moving too: this is ‘Nanã’, the Moacir Santos hit and standard recorded by the likes of Herbie Hancock. Santos had a great influence as an educator, teaching Baden Powell and Sérgio Mendes, and his 1965 album Coisas is considered a classic. Gonçalves and Cohen breathe fresh life into his catalogue, joining forces to make a sound that is at once ethereally light and deeply and irresistibly stirring.