Since he emigrated from Cuba in 1993, Omar Sosa ( 7-time GRAMMY-nominated pianist and composer) has forged a distinctive musical path, fusing an array of jazz, world music, hip-hop, and electronic elements with his Afro-Cuban roots. Jazzonline had a little chat with him before is performance at Gazarte on December 12, 2015.
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The Next Step Quintet feat. Tivon Pennicott - 2015
Monday, 23 November 2015 16:33 Published in Discography
The Next Step Quintet feat. Tivon Pennicott
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Omar Sosa AfroCubano Quarteto
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Piano trio GoGo Penguin consolidating new trends in jazz
Monday, 16 November 2015 09:16 Published in Articles
In US, the birthplace of jazz, new listeners are not engaging with jazz music as much as they did in the past and jazz album sales have been dropping - in 2014 they amounted to only 2% of all music album sales. After the turn of the century interest in jazz seemed to have waned, perhaps because many long-time enthusiasts have not engaged much with the advent of digital releases or with the newly emerging trends that cross the boundaries of different music genres.
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