The Grammy hubbub has died down now, but lest you think Award season is over! The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards also feature a couple of Children’s categories (album & song) and several of the nominees should be familiar to OWTK loyalists. You don’t have a say in the outcome […]
I live a charmed life. I stay at home, I’ve got a lovely wife, and 2 adorable children (“that’s debatable” – Mary Poppins reference, which will make perfect sense as you read on). The blurb of a bio I hand out when freelance writing ends with “Jeff considers himself to […]
ORAN ETKIN “WAKE UP, CLARINET” The Sound: Upper crust jazz with the crusts cut off. In the Cafeteria, He Sits With: Coal Train Railroad, Hayes Greenfield Best Moments: The opening piano salvo in “High Low”, the album’s 1st musical cut, will have jazz aficionados salivating. It’s the initial sign that […]
Not many kid’s musicians can sling quotes from Harvey Keitel, Naomi Watts, Ken Burns, Edie Falco and Liev Schreiber. Oran Etkin though, thanks to his stature in the jazz community and, more specifically, his Timbalooloo music classes in New York City, can. His reputation as a clarinet master seems well-earned, […]
