Kelenia, Nama, Nina and Lacy:Upcoming CD with Balla and Meckane Kouyate, Lionel Loueke, John Benitez, Joe Sanders, Abdoulaye Diabate, Sara Caswell and Jessie Marino.
All My Clarinet:With Jason Marsalis (drums), Garth Stevenson (bass), Fabian Almazan (piano). We just started recording a CD with this band plus Curtis Fowlkes on Trombone.
Mali Sajo:Duo with Abdoulaye Diabate (voice/guitar)- live recording.
Also performs with Abdoulaye Diabate, Simon Lott, Marcus Rojas, Tarus Mateen, Wycliffe Gordon, Lionel Loueke, Ron Caswell, Rob Curto, Raph McGregor, Djakout Mizik, Wyclef Jean, Jon Levy and many others.
Influences
George Garzone, Yusef Lateef, Blind Willie McTell, Whiskey Lemon, Betty Carter, Ali Farka Toure, Mohamed Sidi Joh Camara, Steve Lacy, Toumani Diabate, Louis Armstrong, Abdoulaye Diabate, Sidney Bechet, Alban Berg, Bela Bartok, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, JS Bach, Brahms, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Dave Krakauer, Naftule Brandwein, Dave Tarras, Dave Liebman, Charles Neidich, Coleman Hawkins, Tuba Fats, Mississippi Sheiks, Joe Lovano, Lester Young, Johnny Dodds, Archie Shepp, Oumou Sangare, Djelimady Tounkara, Balla Kouyate, Sonny Rollins, Son House, Stanley Brothers, Thelonious Monk, Victoria Spivey, Art Tatum.
Sounds Like
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The CD features Oran's working group with Malian griot musicians Balla Kouyate, Makane Kouyate and bassist Joe Sanders as well as guests including vocalist Abdoulaye Diabate, Grammy Award Winning artists Lionel Loueke and John Benitez and even a string quartet on one track. The resulting sound is a reflection of Oran's musical personality rooted in jazz but shaped by the many musical worlds that Oran is a part of in New York, including African, Jewish, Haitian and New Orleans music. Even before its release, Kelenia debuted at 10 on the nationwide radio charts and has declared that Oran "sets a new standard for world music in the decade of the 2000s" (click here to view All Music Guide review of Oran Etkin's Kelenia).
Oran built his foundations studying with George Garzone starting at age 14 and later with Yusef Lateef. He studied classical clarinet and composition as an undergraduate and received a Masters in Jazz Performance at the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Dave Liebman and Dave Krakauer among others.
Oran continues the tradition of music education as a faculty member of the Brooklyn Conservatory and through the unique new method that he developed for teaching music to 2-6 year olds that has been implemented with over 500 young students in New York. Oran is in the process of adapting this method into a set of children's books and writing a book for adults on how children learn music.
Oran has performed at the Blue Note, Central Park SummerStage, Joe's Pub, the United Nations and numerous other venues in the US, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East with musicians including Jason Marsalis, Wycliffe Gordon, Lionel Loueke, Mike Stern, Airto Moreira, Toumani Diabate, Killah Priest (of the Wu-Tang Clan) and Wyclef Jean.
You can find more information and sound samples at his website oranetkin.com. The website gets updated more often than the myspace.
hi Oran how are you? I hope evry thing is fine im going to be in November in Turky and Greece for a document film about the great Rembetuko Jewish singer Roza Escenazy Im going to play there with local groops etc... i think it somthing we can bring olso to us as we wanted to do( after the film will finshed) I realy hope so. ah I heard Giora Fidman in concert it was great I found again that klaizmer and rembetiko somtimes are very close and i like to do somthing with this idea. hoping to hear from you soon "Shana Tova" Tomer
Salam brother! How have you been? I listened to the five trax. Like them. Although Although I am not a fan of the clarinet, your clarinet sounds cool. March 11th I will have my first official gig with my band THE TEHRAN-DAKAR BROTKERS at 8:00 PM. The theme is SILENCE IS SOUND. Nu world trash!!! Please come! Sohrab
hello my friend..thank you for the comment... yea i been once.. with seckou keita quintet and we played at the drom in New York... was nice.. oh great good luck with the recording. am sure we will meet up and do some playing..i like the songs on ur page..all the best..jali sura..
SAVE THE DATE NOV.9TH @ BIRDLAND “DJANGO REINHARDT FESTIVAL”
I am very happy and honored to have the privilege of my "own night" at Birdland for the Django Festival this year.
This for sure, is going to be an amazing night and the one not to miss!
Featuring : SAMSON SCHMITT, ANDREAS OBERG, LUDOVIC BEIER, TIMBO MEHRSTEIN, JEAN-BAPTISTE SCHMITT, KRUNO SPISIC, BRIAN TORFF and The HOT CLUB of DETROIT.
Produced by Pat Philips and Ettore Stratta. http://www. djangobirdland. com/
At "BIRDLAND" 315 W 44th St New York, NY 10036 (212) 581-3080 www. birdlandjazz. com/ 2 shows at shows 8:30 & 11 pm
Our NEW CD is now available !!! You can also download for free 3 tracks on our page. Greetings from south of France Peace and Groove HappY-T & El Calife
Thank's for the add ;-)) Good tracks here too !!! You can download for free on our page 3 new mastered full tracks, hope you'll enjoy ;-) Greetings from South fo France Peace and Groove HappY-T
Hello Oran. Thanks for the add and the nice words. I enjoied your music very much, and I like your way of teaching music very much as well. I will have a look at your new CD. I hope to see you in France sometime. All the best for you, a lot of success. Cordialement. Christophe
