MAIJAZZ 2027 : Omar Sosa Trio featuring Yilian Cañizares

at Humorhuset Stavangeren, Stavanger

MAIJAZZ 2027 : Omar Sosa Trio featuring Yilian Cañizares is at Humorhuset Stavangeren in Stavanger on Wednesday 5 May 2027 at 19:00.

Date: Wed 5 May · 19:00
Promoter: Stavanger Scenedrift AS

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Humorhuset Stavangeren, Vaisenhusgaten 37, 4012 · Get directions

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MAIJAZZ 2027 : Omar Sosa Trio featuring Yilian Cañizares is a concert at Humorhuset Stavangeren, 3.9 km from the centre of Stavanger. It is a good pick for music fans and a night out with friends.

About the event

From the organiser, as published on Ticketmaster.

No Maijazz without solid elements of so-called world music -- folk music from home and abroad with openings towards other genres such as jazz, blues, funk, electronics and classical music for that matter. To strengthen next year's world music profile, Maijazz has so far signed the Cuban pianist and multi-instrumentalist Omar Sosa.

It will not be his debut at Maijazz -- audiences who have been around for a while may perhaps remember Sosa's concert in Stavanger in 2004 which earned a standing ovation. Cuban rhythms have been an important source of inspiration for American jazz musicians since the 1940s.

Dizzy Gillespie took the conga drummer Chano Pozo under his wing in 1947. He didn't last long there, unfortunately -- a bullet ended his career already in 1948.

But he had successors. In the 1970s, the band Irakere achieved huge success all over the world despite attempts by Cuban authorities to control both the music and the band members' movements, and despite a couple of spectacular defections to the USA with considerable help from the same Dizzy Gillespie.

Omar Sosa was born in 1965, well 15 years after the defected Irakere stars Paquito d'Rivera and Arturo Sandoval saw the light of day. He began studying music in general and drumming in particular as a five-year-old -- Cuba takes its culture seriously and is known for having good music schools for all age groups.

In the mid-1980s he began getting work as an accompanist for leading Cuban vocalists, whilst at the same time achieving local success with his own groups. In the mid-1990s he made the leap to Oakland in California.

Since 1999 he has been based in Spain, more specifically Barcelona. Cuban music is always rousing, but can lapse into blaring and driving on, with masses of percussion, large brass sections and trumpet players who can't play loud enough.

Omar Sosa can certainly if he wants to blare and drive on with the best, but he is about as far from a cliché rider as it is possible to come. He is an art musician with a st