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Omar Sosa
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Composer-pianist-bandleader Omar Sosa was born in 1965 in Camagüey, Cuba's largest inland city. At age eight, Omar began studying percussion and marimba at the music conservatory in Camagüey; in Havana, as a teenager, he took up piano at the prestigious Escuela Nacional de Música, and completed his formal education at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. Among his influences, Omar cites traditional Afro-Cuban music, European classical composers (including Chopin, Bartok, and Satie), Monk, Coltrane, Parker, Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Chucho Valdés, and the pioneering Cuban jazz group Irakere. Moving in 1993 to Ecuador, Omar immersed himself in the folkloric traditions of Esmeraldas, the northwest coast region whose African heritage includes the distinctive marimba tradition. He relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1995, and soon invigorated the Latin jazz scene with his adventurous writing and percussive style.
2025 Detroit Jazz Festival: All Free, All Jazz
by Paul Rauch
2025 Detroit Jazz Festival Hart Plaza & Cadillac Square Detroit, MI August 28-September 1, 2025 There is a story Detroit Jazz Festival President and Artistic Director Chris Collins loves to tell about an intimate conversation he had with Gretchen Valade. Valade had rescued the festival from the brink of financial demise ...
Siena Jazz 2025
by Paolo Peviani
Siena Jazz--International Summer Workshop--55th Edition Siena Jazz International Academy Siena, Italy July 26-August 7, 2025 Fifty-five editions, more than ninety students from around the globe, and some thirty faculty members who are also acclaimed performers on the international scene. Listing them all is not mere name-dropping, but a way to ...
Siena Jazz - International Summer Workshop – 55a Edizione
by Paolo Peviani
Siena Jazz--International Summer Workshop--55a Edizione Siena Jazz International Academy Siena 26 luglio--7 agosto 2025 Cinquantacinque edizioni, oltre novanta studenti provenienti da ogni parte del mondo, una trentina di docenti che sono anche affermati musicisti in ambito internazionale. Li elenchiamo tutti, non per gusto declamatorio, ma per dare contezza della portata dei ...
Tix On Sale For Upcoming Shows At New Jersey Performing Arts Center Including Stanley Jordan, Arturo Sandoval, And More
Announcing Preliminary Fall Season of Jazz at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) including Stanley Jordan Playing Jimi Hendrix, Arturo Sandoval, and more—sponsored in part by TD Bank Tickets Go on Sale Friday, May 30, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. NJPAC One Center Street Newark, NJ 07102 Sat 11.08 @ 7:30 P.M. Omar Sosa ...
Denver Jazz Fest 2025
by Geoff Anderson
Denver Jazz Fest Denver and Boulder, CO April 3-6, 2025 The inaugural Denver Jazz Fest unfurled over four days from April 3 to 6, 2025. The sprawling festival presented 32 concerts at 12 different venues throughout the Denver and Boulder area. The timing was meant to coincide with Jazz Appreciation Month as ...
Omar Sosa's 88 Well-Tuned Drums
By Omar Sosa
Label: Ota Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Sunrise;
Toridanzó;
Portrait;
Promised Land;
Cha Cha du Nord;
So All Freddie;
Angustia With Tumbao;
Para Ella.
Talking the Groove: Jazz Words from the Morning Star
by Duncan Heining
Talking the Groove: Jazz Words from the Morning Star Chris Searle (foreword by Mike Westbrook) 394 pages ISBN: #978-1-9163206-7-3 Jazz in Britain 2024 Talking the Groove collects Chris Searle's more recent reviews, articles and interviews from the British socialist daily paper, the Morning Star, acting as a follow-up to ...
Seckou Keita At Crescent Arts Centre
by Ian Patterson
Seckou Keita Crescent Arts Centre Belfast, N. Ireland September 27, 2024 Have a good rummage around at home. If you have a pumpkin in your kitchen or larder, if you can dig out an old fishing rod from your garage or attic, if you can requisition a piece of mahogany ...
