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Omar Sosa Quarteto Afrocubano at Bird's Basement Jazz Club

Courtesy of Birds Basement | Posted on April 1, 2019

Where

Bird's Basement Jazz Club
11 Singers Lane
Melbourne
Map
+61 1300 225 299

Omar Sosa Quarteto Afrocubano  at Bird's Basement Jazz Club

When

Fri, May 17, 2019
18:00

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Musicians

Omar Sosa
piano

About

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.

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.

Annually performing upwards of 100 concerts on six continents, Omar has appeared in venues as diverse as the Blue Note (New York, Milan, and Tokyo), Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Arts among others....

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