ONE SHOW AT 8PM
Thursday, May 3 2018 -
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ONE SHOW AT 8PM
Oran Etkin - Clarinet, Bass-Clarinet, Saxophone
Ben Allison - Bass
Nir Felder - Guitar
Alvester Garnett - Drums
Oran Etkin has been described as a "great clarinet player, excellent improviser" by New York Times critic Ben Ratliff and a "composer of eminent individuality" by Yusef Lateef. His music is featured on several CDs, including a GRAMMY Award winning compilation and he was voted #1 Rising Star Clarinetist in DownBeat Magazine’s 2016 Critics Poll. His recent Paris duo concert was chosen as one of the top 6 musical highlights of the year by French publication Libération, which described it as "A concert of weightlessness, class, spark, inspiration and sharing. Magic uninterrupted for two hours. The crowd... went wild. For such is Etkin's music: sensitive to the exchange with the audience."
Etkin will perform music from his Motema Music release "Gathering Light". With this project Etkin flipped the traditional model of record first then tour -- instead he toured around the world in Indonesia, Japan, China, Israel and West Africa, collaborating with traditional musicians in each region whenever possible and allowing the rhythm, melodies and experiences from each of these regions to inform the music that became Gathering Light. The project gets its name from a story in the Kaballah that speaks of a soulful primordial light that existed at the beginning of time and was too intense for any vessel to hold. The vessels shattered, scattering little remnants of this soulful light throughout our material world. The story calls on us all to help mend this world by gathering these scattered points of light and bringing them together -- a message that resonated with Etkin and the work he does with musicians around the world. This idea is also in harmony with lessons that Etkin learned from his mentors such as Yusef Lateef, Anthony “Tuba Fats” Lacen, Dave Liebman, George Garzone that the blues is not just a musical form, but an approach to life, and that this was a music that grew out of the human instinct to find and gather light in our darkest moments. Etkin will be joined by his New York based band with Ben Allison, Nir Felder and Alvester Garnett.
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