1. Ephraim Owens was born on November 5,1972 and is an American musician, composer, and jazz bandleader who plays trumpet and flugelhorn.
15 Facts About Ephraim Owens
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Ephraim Owens has toured and recorded with the Tedeschi Trucks Band since 2015.
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Ephraim Owens is one of the most highly regarded jazz musicians living in Austin, Texas, and he focuses on performing in that genre when he is not touring.
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Ephraim Owens was born in Dallas, Texas on November 5,1972, the son of John Henry Owens, an aviation mechanic, and Mary Alice Lee.
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Ephraim Owens took up clarinet in the third grade in order to be in the school band, and he was playing trumpet at the family's Pentecostal church.
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Ephraim Owens's father insisted that he audition for Booker T Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
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Ephraim Owens attended Weatherford College to study classical trumpet and was recruited to continue his studies at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, where he studied with jazz pianist James Polk.
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Ephraim Owens soon became a fixture in the Austin music scene.
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Ephraim Owens has toured and recorded with a variety of artists across a range of genres.
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Ephraim Owens appeared on Bulletproof, the 2008 studio album by country-rock band Reckless Kelly and has recorded with bluesman Jimmie Vaughan.
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Ephraim Owens returned to Austin from tour on March 9,2020, just as the COVID-19 pandemic shut down live music performances.
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Ephraim Owens appears on the band's albums Live from the Fox Oakland, Signs and I Am the Moon.
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Ephraim Owens's composition MoMoCi is a staple of his live performances in Austin.
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Ephraim Owens is the recipient of eight Austin Music Awards, which are given out based on votes of readers of the Austin Chronicle.
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Ephraim Owens was voted best horn player in 2012,2013,2015,2016, and 2017, inducted into the Austin Music Hall of Fame in 2017, and received the award for "Best Performing Band " in 2018 and 2020.