Omar Sosa Quarteto Americanos & Documentary “Omar Sosa’s 88 Well-Tuned Drums”
June 17 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Opens: June 17, 5:00 PM Screening & 7:30 PM Concert
Doors open at 4:30 PM
Admission: $50-$75 Student: $25
Cuban piano maestro Omar Sosa, a longtime Healdsburg favorite, returns to town with his Quarteto Americanos featuring Cuban bassist Ernesto Mazar Kindelán, Berkeley drummer Josh Jones, and Oakland multi-reed player Sheldon Brown, who’s spent much of the past two years touring with the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir. Though long based in Barcelona, Sosa gained fame while living in Oakland, and his musical journey from Camagüey and Havana to Ecuador and eventually the East Bay is detailed in the new documentary Omar Sosa’s 88 Well-Tuned Drums, which screens as part of this program. An omnivorously creative figure whose music encompasses Afro-Cuban folkloric chants and European Romanticism, post-bop and hip hop, West African grooves and ambient moods, he’s released more than three dozen albums documenting collaborations with an international cast of fellow sound explorers.
Quarteto Americanos is Omar Sosa’s first US-based jazz ensemble since the 1990s. Featuring Omar Sosa on piano & keyboards, Sheldon Brown on saxophone, clarinet, & flute, Ernesto Mazar Kindelán on bass, and Josh Jones on drums.
OMAR SOSA’S 88 WELL-TUNED DRUMS is a feature-length documentary on the life and music of Cuban-born pianist and composer, Omar Sosa. Directed by Soren Sorensen, released in April 2022.
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