Ephraim Owens is an American musician, composer, and jazz bandleader who plays trumpet and flugelhorn

Flugelhorn

The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...

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Owens began playing trumpet in elementary school, after classmates urged him to join the school band. He continued his music education at the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts

Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts

Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts is a public secondary school located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas . Booker T. Washington High School enrolls students in grades 9-12 and is the Dallas Independent School District's arts magnet school...

 in Dallas, Texas

Dallas, Texas

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 and earned a music scholarship to Southwest Texas State University. Ephraim studied classical music until he switched to jazz after attending a Roy Hargrove

Roy Hargrove

Roy Anthony Hargrove is an American jazz trumpeter. He won worldwide notice after winning two Grammy Awards for differing types of music, in 1997, and in 2002...

 concert.

Owens moved to Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...

 in 1994 and became a fixture in the Austin music scene. Austin mayor Bruce Todd proclaimed June 14, 1997 as Ephraim Owens Day for his musical achievements. Ephraim has played all over the world and is adaptable to all styles of music, but mostly he plays his favorite music, jazz.

Owens appears in a documentary film

Documentary film

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 exploring the musical styles of the United States

United States

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 entitled, Before the Music Dies. Other featured artists included Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially...

, Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...

, Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...

, Dave Matthews

Dave Matthews

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, Erykah Badu

Erykah Badu

Erica Abi Wright , better known by her stage name Erykah Badu , is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Her work includes elements from R&B, hip hop and jazz. She is best known for her role in the rise of the neo soul sub-genre, and for her eccentric, cerebral musical...

, and Widespread Panic

Widespread Panic

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Owens appears on the Abra Moore

Abra Moore

Abra Moore is a folk-styled rock singer-songwriter. Her 1997 album Strangest Places included the hit "Four Leaf Clover", which received airplay in Midwest U.S. radio markets and VH1 and MTV2 rotation, and charted on the Billboard Hot 100.-Biography:Moore's parents named Abra after the heroine of...

 release On the Way

On The Way (Abra Moore album)

On the Way is the fourth album released by Austin, Texas based singer-songwriter Abra Moore, on 12 June 2007, by Sarathan Records.-Track listing:All songs written by Abra Moore, except as noted.#"Into the Sunset" – 4:35#"After All These Years" – 3:52...

playing flugelhorn. http://www.abramoore.com/reviews_ontheway.html

Owens currently plays with Blaze, and his various quintet

Quintet

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s, quartet

Quartet

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s, and trios

Trio (music)

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 and is a regular on the Austin music scene, playing as a regular at many mainstays.

Recorded with

Erykah Badu

Erykah Badu

Erica Abi Wright , better known by her stage name Erykah Badu , is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Her work includes elements from R&B, hip hop and jazz. She is best known for her role in the rise of the neo soul sub-genre, and for her eccentric, cerebral musical...

, Doyle Bramhall

Doyle Bramhall

Doyle Bramhall was an American singer-songwriter and drummer, closely associated with the music of Austin.-Biography:...

, Doyle Bramhall II

Doyle Bramhall II

Doyle Bramhall II is a guitarist and vocalist in his band Smokestack and was also the second guitarist in Eric Clapton's band from 2004 to 2009.-Discography:with Arc Angels*Arc Angels...

, Blaze

Blaze (band)

Blaze is a house-music group formed in 1984 in New Jersey, USA.-Career:It was formed by Josh Milan, Kevin Hedge, and Chris Herbert, when Herbert introduced Milan, a member of his church choir, to Hedge, his childhood friend...

, Stephen Bruton

Stephen Bruton

-Background:Born in Wilmington, Delaware as Turner Stephen Bruton, he moved with his family to Texas at the age of two. He fell into the Fort Worth music scene after graduating from Texas Christian University when he joined Kris Kristofferson's band as the latter's career was about to take off;...

, Patrice Pike

Patrice Pike

Patrice Pike is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. She's been a professional musician and songwriter since she was sixteen. Billboard magazine proclaimed her "one of the finest up and coming contemporary rock singers in America"....

, Wayne Hancock

Wayne Hancock

Wayne "The Train" Hancock is a country musician.Hancock began writing songs at the age of 12, and at 18 won a talent contest called the "Wrangler County Showdown." Immediately after the contest, he was shipped to recruit training and served four years with the United States Marine Corps. In 1994...

, Wendy Colonna

Wendy Colonna

Wendy Colonna is an American Singer-songwriter originally from Lake Charles, Louisiana. Her albums include Red , Right Where I Belong , Old New Borrowed & Blue , and We Are One ....

, Reckless Kelly

Reckless Kelly

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http://www.texasmusictimes.com/articles/0806/reckless-kelly.php, Abra Moore

Abra Moore

Abra Moore is a folk-styled rock singer-songwriter. Her 1997 album Strangest Places included the hit "Four Leaf Clover", which received airplay in Midwest U.S. radio markets and VH1 and MTV2 rotation, and charted on the Billboard Hot 100.-Biography:Moore's parents named Abra after the heroine of...

http://www.abramoore.com/reviews_ontheway.html.

Performed with

The String Cheese Incident, Peter Rowan, Karl Denson

Karl Denson

Karl Denson is a funk and jazz saxophonist, flutist and vocalist from San Diego, California. He was a member of Lenny Kravitz's band and has co-founded and led The Greyboy Allstars. Denson has recorded with artists including Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, Blind Boys of Alabama, Blackalicious,...

, Roy Hargrove

Roy Hargrove

Roy Anthony Hargrove is an American jazz trumpeter. He won worldwide notice after winning two Grammy Awards for differing types of music, in 1997, and in 2002...

, Calexico, Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Dirty Dozen Brass Band

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band is a New Orleans, Louisiana, brass band. The ensemble was established in 1977 by Benny Jones together with members of the Tornado Brass Band...

, Wendy & Lisa

Wendy and Lisa

Wendy & Lisa are a music duo consisting of Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman. They began working with Prince in the early 1980s and were part of his band The Revolution, before branching out on their own and releasing their debut album in 1987...

, DJ Jazzy Jeff

DJ Jazzy Jeff

Jeffrey Allen Townes , also known as DJ Jazzy Jeff or simply Jazz, is an American hip hop, R&B record producer, turntablist and actor. He is best known for his early career with Will Smith as DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince...

, Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially...

, Seela Misra

Seela Misra

Seela Misra is an American jazz vocalist from Austin, Texas. She is also well known as the lead singer of the jazz band Torch and also as the back-up singer for Matt The Electrician. Her albums include Probably Lucy , Something Happened , Hard Times Hit , and Rock With Us . Brian Beattie produces...

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Toured with Sheryl Crow

Sheryl Crow

Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, folk, hip hop, country and pop...

 on the 100 Miles from Memphis

100 Miles from Memphis

-Commercial performance:In the United States, 100 Miles From Memphis was the Billboard 200's second-highest debut. The album which started at number #3 with sales of 55,000 copies is the singer's eighth top 10 album. In its second week, the album droped to number #8, with sales of 24,000 copies. In...

tour. http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/music/entries/2010/07/19/cd_review_sheryl_crow_100_mile.html

External links

• Ephraim Owens
• Before the Music Dies