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SUMMARY:Omar Sosa
DESCRIPTION:Omar Sosa\, piano Yosvany Terry\, saxophones Julian Miltenber
 ger\, drums Cuban composer and pianist Omar Sosa is one of the most vers
 atile jazz artists on the scene today. He fuses a wide range of jazz\, w
 orld music\, and electronic elements with his native Afro-Cuban roots to
  create a fresh and original urban sound – all with a Latin jazz heart. 
 Omar Sosa’s musical trajectory has taken him from Camagüey and Havana to
  touring in Angola\, the Congo\, Ethiopia\, and Nicaragua in the 1980s\;
  to a sojourn in the African-descent communities of Ecuador in the early
  1990s\; to an extended presence on the San Francisco Bay Area Latin jaz
 z scene\; to his current engagement with artists from France\, Cuba\, Br
 azil\, and several North\, West\, and East African nations. His career e
 mbodies the expansive outlook of a visionary artist who has taken Monk’s
  uncompromising spirit to heart\, while working ceaselessly to craft and
  project a unique\, cosmopolitan voice. Read more Mr. Sosa received a li
 fetime achievement award from the Smithsonian Associates in Washington\,
  DC in 2003 for his contribution to the development of Latin jazz in the
  United States. He has been nominated seven times for a GRAMMY and twice
  for the BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards. In 2003 he received the Afro-Ca
 ribbean Jazz Album of the Year Award from the Jazz Journalists Associati
 on in NYC for his recording Sentir\; and a nomination from the Jazz Jour
 nalists Association for Latin Jazz Album of the Year in 2005 for his rec
 ording Mulatos\, featuring Paquito D’Rivera. In 2008\, Omar Sosa was com
 missioned by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and the Oa
 kland East Bay Symphony to compose a major work for symphony orchestra (
 From Our Mother)\, supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
  In 2009\, Omar was invited by the city of Girona\, Spain and the Festiv
 al de Músicas Religiosas y del Mundo de Girona to write another work for
  symphony orchestra (Oda Africana). Also in 2009 the Barcelona Jazz Fest
 ival commissioned a tribute to Miles Davis’ Kind Of Blue recording\, fea
 turing Afro-Cuban interpretations of the seminal Davis work on the occas
 ion of its 50 th anniversary. The compositions from this Kind Of Blue tr
 ibute form the basis of Omar’s new CD\, Eggun\, released in February 201
 3\, with his new band\, The Afri-Lectric Experience\, featuring Joo Krau
 s on trumpet\, Peter Apfelbaum on tenor saxophone\, and Leandro Saint-Hi
 ll on alto saxophone. Special guests include Lionel Loueke and Marvin Se
 well on guitars\, and Pedro Martinez\, John Santos\, and Gustavo Ovalles
  on percussion. Omar’s CD release with the NDR Bigband\, Ceremony\, rece
 ived an ECHO Jazz Award in 2011 for Big Band Album of the Year. In Janua
 ry 2012\, Omar collaborated with celebrated Italian trumpet and flugelho
 rn player\, Paolo Fresu\, on the release of Alma. The CD features guest 
 cello contributions on four tracks by the masterful Brazilian conductor\
 , arranger\, producer\, and cellist\, Jaques Morelenbaum (who also did t
 he big band arrangements for Ceremony). Also in 2012\, Mr. Sosa served a
 s president of the jury for the Golden Jazz Trophy Awards in Arras\, Fra
 nce. Mr. Sosa was born in Camagüey\, Cuba in 1965. He moved to Havana in
  1980 to continue his music studies at the prestigious Escuela Nacional 
 de Música\, finishing his formal training at the Instituto Superior de A
 rte in 1983. Among his influences\, Omar cites traditional Afro-Cuban mu
 sic\, European classical composers (including Chopin\, Bartok\, and Sati
 e)\, Monk\, Coltrane\, Parker\, Oscar Peterson\, Herbie Hancock\, Chick 
 Corea\, Keith Jarrett\, Chucho Valdés\, and the pioneering Cuban jazz gr
 oup Irakere.\n\nTickets: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36622/performance/118
 55995\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/35c50696-29a4-48f6-8fd9-7b983
 5f5bac8
LOCATION:Groton Hill Music Center\, 122 Old Ayer Rd\, Groton\, MA 01450
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/35c50696-29a4-48f6-8fd9-7b9835f5bac
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