Ceremony

Omar Sosa

Ceremony is a major new project, the fruit of pianist-composer Omar Sosa's first big-band collaboration with composer-arranger-cellist Jaques Morelenbaum, Hamburg's 18–piece NDR Bigband (North...
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CD 1
  • Omar Sosa
  • Llegada Con Elegba
    3:06
  • Changó En Esmeraldas
    6:19
  • Danzón De Tus Ojos
    7:31
  • Yemaya En Agua Larga
    6:39
  • Luz En El Cielo
    8:41
  • Cha Con Marimba
    5:43
  • Mi Tradición
    6:28
  • Carambabá
    7:53
  • Monkurú
    7:07
  • Salida Con Elegba
    2:56
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CD Ceremony Omar Sosa

Ceremony is a major new project, the fruit of pianist-composer Omar Sosa's first big-band collaboration with composer-arranger-cellist Jaques Morelenbaum, Hamburg's 18–piece NDR Bigband (North German Radio / Norddeutscher Rundfunk), and the Omar Sosa Quartet. Sosa himself plays piano and marimba.Recorded in two sessions (2007 and 2008) at NDR's Hamburg studios, under the direction of Morelenbaum and Sosa, Ceremony features Morelenbaum's brilliant arrangements of selections from Omar's Spirit Of The Roots (1999), Bembón (2000), and Afreecanos (2009) CDs-together with two new Sosa offerings, 'Llegada Con Elegba'(the introductory track) and 'Salida Con Elegba'(the closing piece). Rooted in the Quartet's Afro-Cuban percussive traditions, Sosa's finely textured compositions enable Morelenbaum to summon forth a broad palette of sounds, fully mobilizing the NDR Bigband's sonic potential and its brilliant soloists, while leaving ample space for Sosa's own luminous improvisations. Ceremony takes something of the structure of a sacred batá ceremony, invoking a panoply of Yoruba deities, while also delving into the Cuban son, danzón, and cha-cha-cha. Ceremony acknowledges the majesty of the legendary Afro-Cuban big bands of Frank 'Machito'Grillo, Chico O'Farrill, and Dizzy Gillespie, while extending those revered traditions in a contemporary salute to the expansive universe of world jazz, wherein Sosa himself continues to reign as a joyous, generous, abundant, and essential creative spirit.

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Omar Sosa

Omar Sosa
Jaques Morelenbaum
NDR big band

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Original title: Omar Sosa / Ceremony
1 CD - 1h 2mn 24s
upc/ean. 794881951123
ref. 479042
Release Date: 25/02/2010