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Omar Sosa is a musician extraordinaire composer, arranger, pianist, percussionist, improvisatore, communicator. His Afro-Cuban based mix of jazz and world music is broadly expressive - full of power and passion, subtlety and grace. Omar draws from each culture he touches the energy and storytelling of hip-hop, the free-spirited experimentation of jazz, the heartfelt emotion of an Afro-Ecuadorian choir, the sensuality of popular Cuban music, the hypnotic trance of Gnawa ritual. The result is a modern, urban music with a Latin jazz heart.
In June, he and his band the Omar Sosa Quarteto AfroCubano will introduce their new album at the MoM Cultural Center.

Date: June 3rd 2015, 20h | Location: MOMkult (Budapest, XII. district, Csörsz utca 18.).

Sosa, the seven-time Grammy-nominated Cuban composer and pianist plays hundreds of concerts around the world in every year, in places such as Carnegie Hall, the Blue Note, the Barbican or the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
A new phase in the jazz and Cuban music linkage is being unveiled by gifted pianist Omar Sosa. Previous blendings of the two genres have tended to emphasize the powerful energies of Afro-Cuban rhythms in combination with the harmonic structures and improvisational qualities of jazz. Sosa, however, has moved beyond the parallelism of musical elements into a kind of natural, organic expressiveness in which the musics’ separate identities are replaced by a seamless, creative mutuality.
“Sosa is a versatile pianist with a big sound, especially strong in the extreme registers, and his fast fingers dig into montunos. At the core of Sosa’s music, there’s the impulse to connect disparate sources, to explore old links, to make an ancient culture whole again by pushing it forward. Sosa’s performances are an extraordinary example of state-of-the-art world jazz, splendidly illustrating how entrancing the music can become when it is open and receptive to global input and interaction.”