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Oran Etkin: What's New? Reimagining Benny Goodman

Read "What's New? Reimagining Benny Goodman" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
September 21, 2015

Those looking to preview some of the most interesting jazz offerings due to arrive in any given year know that New York's Winter Jazzfest is the place to do it. For more than a decade, this annual January happening has had its finger on the pulse of the jazz world, giving the press, the fans, and curious jazz newcomers an opportunity to hear the best of what's around and the best of what's to come. The 2015 ...

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Oran Etkin: Gathering Light

Read "Gathering Light" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
September 26, 2014

Due compagni di viaggio d'eccezione come Nasheet Waits e Ben Allison, due ospiti (in realtà membri più che attivi del quintetto) altrettanto prestigiosi come il “Jazz Passanger" Curtis Fowlkes e il chitarrista Lionel Loueke, ed ecco che il clarinettista, sassofonista, compositore, didatta di origine israeliana Oran Etkin scodella un secondo lavoro da leader di tutto rispetto. Gathering Light è un riuscito esempio di crossover, di differenti culture musicali che si armonizzano grazie ad una verve improvvisativa di ...

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by C. Michael Bailey
May 2, 2014

Oran Etkin Gathering Light Motema 2014 Multi-reedist Oran Etkin gathers his scattered points of inspiration from the whole of the Eastern Hemisphere and a good bit of the Western one. Etkin's main horn is the bass clarinet...not completely unheard of, Eric Dolphy played a mean one, but one heard infrequently enough that it remains almost a novelty. Etkin opens Gathering Light with Ki Narto Saboo's “Gambang Suling," his bass clarinet reaching eastward ...

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Oran Etkin: Gathering Light

Read "Gathering Light" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
April 11, 2014

Multi-reedist Oran Etkin's first album--Kelenia (Motema Music, 2009)--fused Malian sounds and Jewish music with jazz. Its follow-up--Wake Up, Clarinet! (1-2-3-4 Go, 2010)--was geared toward kids. Now, for round three, Etkin has cast his net over a huge portion of the globe, pulling together, arranging, and morphing musical ideals he's encountered while touring through Asia, Israel, and portions of Europe. Gathering Light is a gloriously global musical mélange that finds Etkin in good company, creating alternately gripping and ...

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Oran Etkin: Wake Up Clarinet!

Read "Wake Up Clarinet!" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 10, 2010

Prende la musica per gioco, Oran Etkin. Discepolo di Yusef Lateef e di Dave Liebman, origini israeliane, Etkin pensa che la musica debba essere, innanzitutto, insegnata. Ecco perché trasforma le sue esibizioni in vere e proprie lezioni di educazione musicale per i più piccini. Ha pure inaugurato un metodo che chiama Timbalooloo e che porta in giro per il mondo, convinto che solo diffondendo la conoscenza musicale, proprio nell'età di crescita e attraverso il gioco, si possano ottenere grandi risultati ...

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Oran Etkin: Kelenia

Read "Kelenia" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
March 17, 2010

Exposure to traditional African music is limited in the western hemisphere so it is always a pleasant surprise when a recording is released, especially when it is a solid, well above average effort. Clarinetist and saxophonist Oran Etkin has fused Malian music with elements of improvisation and jazz in his debut, Kelenia. This is not just mere pastiche but a successful melding of musical genres into a work that maintains a strong traditional identity while solidly remaining ...

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Oran Etkin: Kelenia

by Martin Gladu
June 15, 2009

As the open air arias of grilling cicadas and bustling barbecues mix in with the distant thumping of convertibles to announce the new solstice, what better than a hot, mellifluously ornate African chant to brush off what is left of spring and get everyone in a festive mood?The cause of celebration? Summer, of course. But also “Yekeke," an oasis of a song to kick off the festivities to the lively African jazz concoctions of clarinetist Oran Etkin's group, ...