Jazz Articles about Omar Sosa

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Omar Sosa "Sendas" at Cremona Jazz Festival 2026

by Danilo Codazzi
June 4, 2026

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Omar Sosa Suba Trio at SFJAZZ Center

by Harry S. Pariser
March 24, 2026

Omar Sosa Suba Trio SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA March 8, 2026 Pianist and composer Omar Sosa saved something very special for the fourth and final evening performance of his SFJAZZ Center residency, his second for the institution. In mid-2012, Sosa had encountered London-based Senegalese kora master and singer Seckou Keita at a recording session there. They began jamming, which led to the genesis of what was to be a sustained musical collaboration. This led, ...

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Omar Sosa: Sendas

by Dan Bilawsky
November 21, 2025

Omar Sosa's Sendas--"paths," as it translates--pursues courses of catharsis. A solo piano session recorded live at Fazioli Concert Hall in northern Italy during a period of global uncertainty just a few short years ago, it offers a series of improvisations that speak to reflective resolve. The music draws on both individual perspective and universal positioning, creating an overlay that binds artist and listener through the act of creation, a yearning for understanding, and the ceaseless movement of time.

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Omar Sosa & Tim Eriksen, Ningue Ningue, Maria Balteira and more

by Cliff Furnald
April 25, 2024

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Scenes from the 2023 DC Jazz Festival

by Matt Hooke
September 7, 2023

An embassy may seem like an unusual place to kick off the 2023 DC Jazz Festival, but it made for a good indication of the international and collaborative atmosphere fostered by the annual event. The DC Jazz Festival opening night at the House of Sweden, the embassy for Sweden and Iceland, began with a speech by Icelandic ambassador Berdis Ellertsdóttir on the popularity of America's music in the Nordic country. The festival collaborated with other embassies across the ...

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Omar Sosa & Ernesttico Duo B-Black At Lana Meets Jazz Fest 2023

by Danilo Codazzi
July 13, 2023

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Lana Meets Jazz - XI Edizione

by Paolo Peviani
June 27, 2023

Lana Meets Jazz--XI Edizione Lana Meets Jazz Lana (BZ) 13--18.6.2023 Un bell'esempio di piccolo festival. È questa, in sintesi, l'essenza del Lana Meets Jazz. Nel corso degli anni, siamo ormai all'undicesima edizione, gli organizzatori Helga Plankensteiner e Michael Lösch hanno infatti saputo dare a questa manifestazione una connotazione chiara e precisa, fatta di elementi ben amalgamati e coerenti. Un programma musicale fruibile ma molto attento alla qualità. Sedi dei concerti sempre suggestive ed in linea ...