Omar Sosa Afreecanos Quartet
Sunday, May 6
1:00pm-2:30pm
Free
Yerba Buena Gardens
415-543-1718, www.ybgfestival.org
The Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents over 90 free events including music, theater, circus, dance, poetry and children’s programs with artists from Africa, Colombia, Japan, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Spain, the Philippines, Sweden, China, Venezuela and the Bay Area. Yerba Buena Gardens is located between Mission Street and Howard Street and 3rd and 4th Streets in downtown San Francisco.
Six-time Grammy nominated Cuban pianist Omar Sosa Afreecanos Quartet mixes Afro-Cuban musical styles with modern electronic elements and African instruments. Afreecanos features Marques Gilmore on drums, Childo Tomas on bass and, Peter Apfelbaum on saxophones. The band will be featuring a number of pieces from Omar’s upcoming studio album EGGUN. This new material originates from Sosa’s Barcelona Jazz Festival Commission to compose and produce a tribute performance to Miles Davis’ classic Kind Of Blue recording on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Guided by various musical elements and motifs from Kind Of Blue, Omar wrote a suite of music featuring horns, incorporating Cuban and African melodies and rhythmic figures into a modern jazz vocabulary.
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Omar Sosa Afreecanos Quartet Live at Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Kick Off - May 6 [DAYTIME 1-2:30 PM]
@ Yerba Buena Gardens, Sunday May 06 2012
Cost: FREE
Music: Afro-Cuban, funk, soul, hip hop & latin
Music: Afro-Cuban, funk, soul, hip hop & latin
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