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Barcelona Jazz Festival 2009 First Concerts Announced
The 41st Voll-Damm Barcelona International Jazz Festival announces several concerts from October 18th to December 6th, 2009 Confirmed Performances: Wayne Shorter Quartet, October 28th. Auditori. Joe Lovano Nonet, November 3rd. Luz de Gas. Concha Buika & Chucho Valdes Quartet, November 5th. Palau de la Musica. Bela Fleck & The Fleckstones, November 5th. Auditori (Sala Oriol Martorell). ...
Omar Sosa: Across The Divide: A Tale of Rhythm & Ancestry
by AAJ Italy Staff
Musica, poesia ed identità africana. Sono i punti cardine di questo disco registrato al Blue Note di New York, un jazz-club ed una città simbolo di melting pot, scelti non a caso dal pianista cubano per irradiare il suo progetto musicale, volto alla riscoperta di un filo ancestrale che lega la Madre Nera con le Americhe. ...
Omar Sosa: The Magic Piano Man and his Afreecanos Quartet
by Bill Leikam
Omar Sosa and his Afreecanos Quartet Douglas Beach HouseHalf Moon Bay, San Francisco March 29, 2009 Before doing live reviews, I never go to the web and check up on the band or the people that I will see perform, preferring not to have any preconceived expectations of the musicians ...
Omar Sosa and the Afreecanos Quartet at Jazz Bakery
When Omar Sosa walked onstage at the Jazz Bakery on Thursday evening, magisterially dressed in head-to-toe white, he carried with him a candle in one hand and a small carved deity in the other. Then, seated before his piano, he began tapping out notes in tandem with percussionist John Santos' extraordinary mlange of found and sampled ...
Omar Sosa: Across The Divide: A Tale Of Rhythm & Ancestry
by Mark F. Turner
In what might be considered a heartfelt ode to Africa, Cuba and America, Grammy-winning pianist/composer, Omar Sosa offers Across The Divide: A Tale Of Rhythm & Ancestry. Both inspired and uplifting it encompasses a “song cycle" that documents the shared rhythms of Sosa's ancestry and Tim Eriksen, a New England ethno-musicologist specializing in native and adopted ...
Omar Sosa CD Release & Tour Dates
Half Note Records is proud to release Omar Sosa Sextet's Across the Divide: A Tale of Rhythm & Ancestry on March 24, 2009. Across The Divide is a song cycle highlighting the shared rhythms and ancestry of Cuban pianist OMAR SOSA and New England multi-instrumentalist and vocalist TIM ERIKSEN, a specialist in native and adopted American ...
New Omar Sosa CD - Winter 2009 Tour Schedule
Recorded at the Blue Note jazz club in New York City, Across The Divide is a song cycle documenting the shared rhythms of Omar Sosa and Tim Eriksen, a New England multi-instrumentalist specializing in native and adopted American musics. The album is a narrative, a tale of musical and spiritual passage, melding and mingling seemingly disparate ...
Afreecanos
By Omar Sosa
Label: Ota Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Prologo; Oll?; Nene La Kanou; Iyade; Babalada; Light In The Sky; D'Son; Tres Negros; Mon Yalala; Tumborum; Why Anga?.
Omar Sosa to Mix Jazz, World Beats During Upcoming Concert
Pianist and percussionist Omar Sosa will bring his group, which plays a combination of Afro-Caribbean rhythms, Latin dance grooves, North African trance music and European folk, to Purdue at 8 p.m. Oct. 18 for a concert at Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. The performance by the Omar Sosa Afreecanos Quartet is presented by Purdue Convocations as part ...
