I thought you’d get a kick out of this Omar Sosa review passed along by a friend from Sudan last week:
“…he was like a dervish santa claus, all whirling movements and dressed in red with a white head cap…piano was electrified via the sound man and but also had all kinds of adjusters and adaptors fixed to it which he, sosa, pressed, stepped on or twiddled as he played…sometimes he stood while playing …sometimes it was soft and intimate and then he would start building to a two fingered crescendo that would spill over into a swooping two handed sweep of the keyboard before he’d whoop with glee and return to playing back and forth follow-me rhythmic pattern exchanges with his guitar/bassist…as i said, it veered from senegalese afro to keith jarret electric jazz interspesred with thelonious monk dissonance…it was thrilling all the way and what was great too was the fact that they had so much fun playing together, he especially…generous, joyful and thoroughly likeable…such an unexpected bonus when heading out on a flat khartoum night with no idea what i was going to see or hear…”