Oran Etkin Releases New Single In Open Arms Project April 16th, Set to perform at San Jose Jazz – New Works Festival for International Jazz Day April 30th On April 16, Oran Etkin will release “Barco”, the next single and music video in the Open Arms Project, a series of singles documenting his collaborations with great masters around … Read More
Oran Etkin Releases Single & Video ‘Pro Carnaval Voltar’ As Carnaval Kicks Off, February 12, 2021 On February 12, the first day of Carnaval, Oran Etkin & Benjamim Taubkin quartet will release its debut single, “Pro Carnaval Voltar” (For Carnaval To Return). The piece is a musical prayer for healing and a call to action … Read More
By JazzTimes Multireedist and Lateef protégé Oran Etkin pays his respects with a video in which he teams up with Zimbabwean musicians. Read this article here.
By JazzTimes JazzTimes is honored to present the premiere of the video for “É Doce Morrer No Mar” by clarinetist Oran Etkin. This is the second video in a series that Etkin has launched as part of what he calls the Open Arms Project. Each month, he will release a new single on all major … Read More
By Becca Pulliam Now clarinetist Oran Etkin is helping ease the travel ban with his Open Arms Project, two years and a half dozen trips in the making. Oran is a jazz player who loves traditional music, and his creative strategy is to tour first, then release something new. So he chooses a musical setting, … Read More
By Matt Micucci, Jazziz Oran Etkin Launches New Initiative: Musician/composer Oran Etkin launched a new initiative titled Open Arms Project on April 17. The series sees him releasing a new single recorded/filmed on location at a different international locale. Read the full article here.
Oran Etkin Launches Open Arms Project Monthly Release of Singles & Music Videos Filmed & Recorded Around The World First Single & Music Video Drops April 17th “Retirantes”, Filmed & Recorded in Rio De Janeiro featuring renowned vocalist & flutist Danilo Caymmi On April 17th, 2020 renowned musician and composer Oran Etkin begins the roll-out … Read More
By Suzanne Lorge, Downbeat In a video from the 2015 International Jazz Day, filmed in Paris, clarinetist Oran Etkin and keyboardist Herbie Hancock are joking around. “I wanna say hi to all the Timbalooloo kids,” says Hancock, directly to the camera. “Thank you so much for being part of this program and thank you for … Read More
By Chris Walker, L.A Jazz Scene Educators, parents, child psychologists and musicians have overwhelming emphasized the importance of exposing children to music at an early age. One musician who’s in the trenches doing the work is reedist Oran Etkin. He was born in Israel and grew up in Boston, where as a teenager he studied … Read More
By: Audrey Henkin, The New York City Jazz Record
