Oran Etkin: Getz/Jobim Centennial Celebration

Oran Etkin is a jazz and world-music musician whose work often threads straight-ahead improvisation with Brazilian-inflected rhythm and song. In New York City he appears at venues such as Dizzy’s Club, shaping sets around close listening and real-time exchange with his rhythm section.

Stan Getz was an American jazz tenor saxophonist whose recorded work traces a long arc from mid-century swing through cool jazz and into the bossa nova collaborations that brought Brazilian songcraft into the jazz mainstream.

Antônio Carlos Jobim, often called Tom Jobim, was a Brazilian composer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist whose writing helped define bossa nova by bringing samba rhythm into conversation with cool-jazz harmony.