News & Observer
Instruments of destiny can take many forms. For Eric Oberstein, it was an audience-response card filled out at a concert.
In the fall of 2007, Oberstein was in New York as a Columbia University graduate student after earning his undergraduate degree at Duke. He went to a show by the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, an 18-piece band playing the sort of Latin jazz Oberstein had grown up hearing and playing himself. Read more