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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, ...

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ilé

By Omar Sosa

Label: Ota Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: A Love Lost; Momento I; 4U; Mentiras Enigmas (Enemy Lies); Momento II; D Vuelta (The Return); Old Afro A Baba; Dame La Luz (Give Me Light); Momento III; Sad Meeting; Momento IV; La Tarde; Mi Conga; A Love Lost Reprise (To My Late Mother).

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Omar Sosa Quarteto AfroCubano: ilé

by Dan Bilawsky
April 6, 2015

"The word ilé, from the Lucumí tradition of Cuba, means home, earth." That single sentence, which gets the ball rolling for Omar Sosa's self-penned liner notes, says all that needs to be said about this return-to-roots project. Or does it? Ilé finds Sosa looking back to Camagüey, Cuba. He populates this album with ...

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Senses

By Omar Sosa

Label: Ota Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Sun Shower; Peaceful Shadow; Looking Both Ways; 3.25; Despacio; Humility; La Luna De Mi Hija; Shadow Of Clouds; Lament; Dark Tango In THe Morning; Two Sides Of Autumn; Olorun; Holy Mary; At Night; Light In The Sky; Pensamientos.

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Omar Sosa: Senses

by Dan Bilawsky
January 11, 2014

Pianist Omar Sosa seems to have a split personality: He's the extroverted dazzler who exudes vivacity and leads the charge, but he's also the introverted-and-contemplative pianist who muses and meditates with fingers on keys. Much of his work allows for both aspects of his artistry to shine; Senses does not. This one is all about the ...

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Desertico

By Paolo Fresu

Label: Ota Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: [I Can't Get No] Satisfaction; La Follia Italiana; Ambre; All Items; Blame It On My Youth; Desertico; Suite For The Devil; Poetto's Sky; Voci Oltre; Young Forever; Medley: Ninna Nanna Per Andrea and Inno Alla Vita.

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Paolo Fresu Devil Quartet: Desertico

Read "Desertico" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
July 24, 2013

Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu has always been more angel than devil, though he's fronted quartets that name check both of those respectively heavenly and hellish entities. His horn work is coolly lyrical and spellbinding, regardless of the setting it's found in, but Fresu also has an impish side to his personality that takes over at certain ...

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Paolo Fresu Devil Quartet: Desertico

Read "Desertico" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 18, 2013

Il Devil Quartet offre a Paolo Fresu una dimensione di piena libertà espressiva, nella quale riesce a dare ampio spazio alla sua diversità di linguaggio, dialogando meno con il silenzio e mettendo più note sullo spartito. È per lui un luogo dove poter incontrare degli ottimi compagni di ventura, con i quali intraprendere itinerari capaci di ...

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Omar Sosa Afri-Lectric Experience: Eggūn

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by AAJ Italy Staff
February 28, 2013

Eggun è un lavoro decisamente interessante ideato nel 2009, quando la produzione del Barcelona Jazz Festival - nella persona di Joan Cararach - aveva commissionato a Omar Sosa un tributo al capolavoro di Miles Davis Kind of Blue, in occasione del cinquantesimo anniversario della pubblicazione. Il pianista cubano ha pensato di mettere insieme una suite improntata ...

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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 ...