# Omar Sosa GFS Trio with Paolo Fresu and Trilok Gurtu at Miner Auditorium, April 23, 2017

[SFJAZZ](https://www.sfjazz.org/events/2016-17/0423/omar-sosa-trio) presents the [Omar Sosa](http://omarsosa.com/) GFS Trio, featuring [Paolo Fresu](http://www.paolofresu.it/) and [Trilok Gurtu](http://www.trilokgurtu.net/)  
[Robert M. Miner Auditorium](http://www.sfjazz.org/center)  
[SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=SFJAZZ+Center,+205+Franklin+St,+San+Francisco,+CA+94102+USA&hl=en)  
7:00 PM, Sunday, April 23, 2017

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## One Set

[7:05 PM lights down, announcements from Randall Kline, band out]

01. [7:10 PM] (unidentified tune \#1) φ
02. [7:20 PM] (unidentified tune \#2) φ
03. [7:32 PM] (unidentified tune \#3) φ
04. [7:46 PM] (unidentified tune \#4, mostly (?entirely?) without Paolo) ©
05. [8:03 PM] (unidentified tune \#5, without Trilok) †
06. [8:11 PM] (unidentified tune \#6) †φ [8:19 PM Paolo swaps back to fulgelhorn]  
[set ends 8:28 PM]  
   
**Encore**
07. [8:29 PM] (unidentified tune \#7) φ  
[show ends 8:43 PM]


## Performers

* [Paolo Fresu](http://www.paolofresu.it/): † trumpet, φ flugelhorn, electronics;
* [Trilok Gurtu](http://www.trilokgurtu.net/): tabla, © cajon, percussion, vox;
* [Omar Sosa](http://omarsosa.com/): piano, keyboards, percussion, vox.


## Notes

Aside from Randall's introduction, there was very little talking tonight, and given my lack of familiarity with the music of this trio, the result is a pretty useless setlist. I did make a few additional notes about who was doing what when, but not enough to really count, and overall, I'm going to rate my effort here tonight as only slightly better than a total failure! I know Omar played percussion on the piano (with wire brushes) on two tunes, for example, but which ones? Darned if I can remember now!

The show, on the other hand, was consistently interesting. While a couple of the tunes seemed to follow a traditional head - jam - head pattern, some of them seemed to be more just vamps or groove statements that functioned as a base for the participants to invent responses and conversations. Tune \#4 consisted mainly of drum-talk traded back and forth between Trilok and Omar (who seemed surprisingly fluent ... a surprise because I don't recall ever hearing him sing drums before. Maybe it's something new he picked up from working with Trilok?). Anyways, it was a fun night, even though I can't tell you much about what they played!

In the encore, Paolo began playing a very la-la-la-ish line on his flugelhorn, and picking up on it, Omar got the crowd to start singing along -- we can all join together with the band -- and once that was going solidly well, Paolo walked offstage to play from the floor of the hall, then moved on to a spot about six or seven rows up on the Stage Right stairway. Must have been pretty cool to be down in the main hall for that one; from my spot in the upper balcony, I could hear him fine, but it was really tough to see him, even with the house lights turned up.

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