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K Trio, Dorota Piotrowska & Sound Circle, Yoron Israel, Zaccai Curtis

by Cheryl K.
August 7, 2026

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music--reissues by pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist William Parker and Irish drummer John Wadham; the Japanese ensemble K Trio; guitarist Leonardo Vita and vocalist Matilde Sabato; drummer/composer Dorota Piotrowska and Sound Circle; drummer Yoron Israel; organist Larry Goldings, guitarist Peter Bernstein, and drummer Bill Stewart; and pianist/composer ...

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Musician

Omar Sosa

Born: April 10, 1965

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.