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OSMANY PAREDES
SATURDAY JULY 21
WATERPLACE PARK BANK RI STAGE | 6PM
Osmany Paredes, born in Santa Clara, Cuba, is a pianist, composer and arranger whose style blends jazz with his Afro-Cuban rhythmic heritage by using a technique derived from years of classical education. A graduate of the National School of Music in Havana, Paredes has appeared at the renowned Havana Jazz Plaza Festival, numerous jazz festivals in Mexico, the Freihofer Jazz Festival in Saratoga, the San Jose Jazz Festival, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, and the Earshot Jazz Festival in Seattle. He has played or recorded with Israel “Cachao” Lopez, Jerry González, Giovanni Hidalgo, Dave Samuels, Orquesta Enrique Jorrin, Celio González, Diego alias “El Cigala”, and “Patato” Valdés, Chocolate Armenteros, Fellove Valdes, Bobby Carcassés, David Murray, Richard Bona and Jane Bunnett.
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