Omar Sosa Afri-Lectric Sextet at Earshot Jazz Festival at Kirkland Performing Arts Center

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The Cuban composer and pianist fuses jazz and global elements with Afro-Cuban spiritualism to create a captivating, urban Latin-jazz sound. He presents material from his new CD, Eggun, a tribute to Miles Davis’ seminal recording, Kind of Blue, with his multinational band: Marque Gilmore, drums; Childo Tomas, electric bass; Joo Kraus, trumpet/flugelhorn; Leandro Saint-Hill, alto sax/flute; and Peter Apfelbaum, tenor sax.

(Presented by Kirkland Performance Center.)

(Welcomed by 91.3 KBCS)