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Marialy Pacheco: Danzón Cubano

by Ian Patterson
June 4, 2020

You can take the girl out of Cuba, but you can't take Cuba out of the girl. Pianist Marialy Pacheco left her homeland for Germany in 2004, and after a few years in Australia, settled once again in Germany. Wherever Pacheco has dropped anchor, however, she has turned to her island's music for inspiration. Nestled amongst ...

Danzón Cubano

By Marialy Pacheco

Label: Neuklang Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Baby Steps First; Ay! Mamá Inéz; La Bikina; Burundanga; Tres Lindas Cubanas; Danzón; Sale el Sol; Metro; El Manisero.

Omar Sosa: Building Bridges Not Walls

by Duncan Heining
May 2, 2019

Cuban-born pianist, Omar Sosa is a passionate man. Music, religion, family, his relationship to the planet—all these are inseparable to an artist whose musical world is steeped in the Afro-Cuban heritage that he draws upon so personally and individually in his work. Spinning culinary metaphors to describe the processes of music-making, he sings the praises of ...

Omar Sosa Residency at SFJAZZ

by Harry S. Pariser
May 8, 2017

Omar Sosa Residency SFJAZZ Spring Season San Francisco, CA April 21-23, 2017 “You don't really listen to an Omar Sosa concert so much as experience it. The Cuban-born pianist's overall demeanor exudes a sense of calm and deep reflection, while a spiritual connection to music and his ancestors comes ...

Joo Kraus/Omar Sosa/Gustavo Ovalles: JOG

by Dan Bilawsky
January 28, 2016

You have to hand it to pianist Omar Sosa. With the exception of some return trips to the solo piano format, he never really repeats himself. Over the past two decades, Sosa has worked alone, gone the duo route with Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu, shared billing/leadership duties with flutist Mark Weinstein, worked with Germany's NDR Bigband, ...

Marialy Pacheco: Introducing

by Ian Patterson
September 3, 2014

The album title is something of a misnomer as Introducing is Marialy Pacheco's seventh release as leader since Benediciones (Weltwunder Records, 2005). The Melbourne-based Cuban's stock has certainly risen since that introduction, notably as a result of becoming the first female winner of the Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition in 2012. A noted classical pianist ...

Omar Sosa: Eggun

by Dan Bilawsky
January 4, 2013

A tribute to trumpet legend Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue (Columbia, 1959), without a single song from the record? The answer: an emphatic “Yes!" In 2009, piano wizard Omar Sosa received a commission from the Barcelona Jazz Festival to “compose and produce a tribute performance to Miles Davis' classic recording, Kind Of Blue, on the occasion ...

Painting Pop

By Joo Kraus

Label: Content Records
Released: 2011

Omar Sosa Afri-lectric Quintet: New York, May 5, 2011

by Dan Bilawsky
May 10, 2011

Omar Sosa Afri-lectric QuintetBlue NoteNew York, NYMay 5, 2011 Cuban-born/Barcelona-based Omar Sosa doesn't simply perform for an audience when he brings his music to a club. He conjures musical spirits and creates a magical realm, unlike any other. The pianist fuses the most ancient and modern ideals imaginable into a ...