Updated: April 13, 2022
I'm mostly self taught. I learned Jazz on the street as well as rock and blues. If you are fine with that then we can talk. I'm fine with it.
Already established as a guitarist why change horses? Why not? Is reinvention a key to the creative process? Oteri explains, “I've always been an explorer and this need for change drives me to new frontiers. While some are cautious about change for me it's about accepting it.”
Oteri's flute and sax work became his focus recently after a purchase of a new flute in 2016 and a couple of tenor saxes in early 2017. “I played flute in my late teens after borrowing my sister's flute, since she was not very interested in it, and played professionally for several years in the early part of my career along with guitar, bass and pedal steel, whatever seemed to be needed. Around this same time, I had an old Conn sax that I played for maybe a year until both the flute and sax needed more work than I could afford at the time. (see tragedy and time off from music in bio below) When I came back to music after several years off I focused on guitar for a few reasons, one being I was living on a sailboat with not much space and guitar was small enough to use on the boat and compose. I did not think about getting back to flute and sax until I had produced a few guitar-based albums but alas, here I am and looking forward to recording and performing anyway I can get it out”
Read moreTags
All About Jazz Articles
Take Five With...
Album Review
- Live in Germany by Glenn Astarita
- WD-41 by Glenn Astarita
Interview
Album Review
- Spiral Out by Marco Piva
- Concepts of MateMaToot by Todd S. Jenkins
April 21, 2022
Willie Oteri And Dark Matter Horns Dig Into Their Archives For...
December 08, 2021
Willie Oteri Releasing New Material Focusing On Saxophone And Flute
February 07, 2020
Celebrating Ten Years Of Jazz OUTside At Kenny Dorham's Backyard in...
March 14, 2019
Willie Oteri Announces New Project And New Releases
February 20, 2018
Multi-Instrumentalist Willie Oteri and Dark Matter Horns Release...
May 05, 2015
Guitarist Willie Oteri Reissues Jazz Gunn's Concepts Of Matematoot
March 04, 2014
Willie Oteri Announces New Music Project And Show Dates
February 10, 2014
12 Hour Non-stop Improvisation Will Raise Money For Austin Non-profit
October 15, 2013
Marathon Jam Will Raise Needed Money For Kenny Dorham's Backyard Event...
June 20, 2013
This is one of those CDs that entirely deserves to be heard by anyone who likes to live inside exotically compelling musical environments. It's rather beautiful too.—Gapplegate Music
...goes beyond anything Charlie Parker or Miles Davis did during even the most experimental years of the Be-Bop jazz era, although there's some of that influence in this album, also