Miguel Zenon’s Esta Plena

February 13, 2010 07:00 pm
February 13, 2010 09:00 pm

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“This young musician and composer is at once reestablishing the artistic, cultural, and social tradition of jazz while creating an entirely new jazz language for the 21st century.”-MacArthur Foundation

2010 Grammy-nominated saxophonist and composer Miguel Zenon is one of the hottest artist to emerge in the next generation of Latin Jazz greats.  This co-founder of the San Francisco Jazz Collective and 2008 MacArthur Fellow integrates a variety of jazz techniques with a rich Afro-Puerto Rican folkloric tradition called plena, to take you on an enticing and innovative journey.  In Esta Plena, Zenon demonstrates his musicianship and genius by configuring plena-typically played on panderos (frame drums)-as the rhythmic foundation for his compositions.  Improvised lyrical incantations of the pleneros (plena vocalists/percussionists) provide animated and melodic infusions Zenon’s compositions.  Zenon’s quartet features Luis Perdomo, piano; Hans Glaswischnig, bass; Henry Cole, drums; and three pleneros: Hector “Tito” Matos, Juan Gutierrez  and Olu  Allende.  (miguelzenon.com)

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