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Miguel Zenón: Vanguardia Subterránea And The Sound Of Sanctuary
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on saxophonist and composer Miguel Zenón.A MacArthur Fellow, Guggenheim recipient, and Grammy winner, Miguel has spent over two decades creating music that connects jazz tradition with Puerto Rican rhythms and modern composition.He's here to talk about his latest release, Vanguardia Subterránea: Live at The Village Vanguard (Miel Music), his quartet's first live album, captured at the Village Vanguard with musicians he's played with for twenty years. Miguel and I first ...
Continue ReadingMiguel Zenón, Max Nagl, Vincent Ségal, Stéphane Kerecki & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
A playlist of handpicked gems from both sides of the Atlantic.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Max Nagl “Shoklad" Phasolny (Rude Noises) 0:16 Host talks 4:04 Vincent Ségal, Stéphane Kerecki “L'échappée" Ponticello (Fuga Libera) 5:16 Host talks 7:47 Naïssam Jalal feat. Sylvain Rifflet “Souffle #3" Souffles (Les couleurs du son) 9:20 Luke Stewart's Silt Remembrance Ensemble “Silt Remembrance" The Order (Cuneiform) 13:14 Jeff Walton “Easy Tease" Pack Animals ...
Continue ReadingMiguel Zenón Quartet: Vanguardia Subterránea: Live at The Village Vanguard
by Mark Corroto
The perfect sports analogy for saxophonist and composer Miguel Zenón might just be baseball legend Roberto Clemente. Both were born in Puerto Rico, and both are revered as masters of their respective crafts. Clemente was a perennial All-Star, a World Series MVP, a Gold Glove winner and a National League batting champion. Zenón, for his part, has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur “genius" grant and a Doris Duke Artist Award. He is frequently recognized as alto saxophonist ...
Continue ReadingMiguel Zenon: Vanguardia Subterránea: Live at The Village Vanguard
by Doug Collette
Suffused with shadows as is the cover photo of Vanguardia Subterranea, it is a perfectly appropriate match for the title of the Miguel Zenon Quartet's first live album. Released in celebration of the ensemble's 20th anniversary, both the image and the music favorably hearken to the displays of healthy improvisational jazz behind graphic designs for vintage albums on the Blue Note and Prestige labels in the 1950s and 1960s. Recorded over two nights in September of 2024 at ...
Continue ReadingMiguel Zenon and Luis Perdomo at Harlem Stage Gatehouse
by Paul Reynolds
Miguel Zenon and Luis Perdomo Harlem Stage Gatehouse Carnegie Hall Citywide New York, NY May 3, 2025 The duets between alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon and pianist Luis Perdomo are among the most affecting jazz collaborations of recent years, and the most acclaimed. The first of the duo albums they've recorded together, El Arte Del Bolero (Miel Music, 2021) was nominated for Best Latin Jazz Album Grammy in 2022, and the second, El Arte Del ...
Continue ReadingMiguel Zenón: Golden City
by Alberto Bazzurro
La musica contenuta in questo album trae spunto da una commissione ricevuta da Miguel Zenón per la composizione di una suite basata sulla storia di San Francisco e della Bay Area, evidenziando in particolare i contributi offerti da parte delle comunità giapponese, cinese, messicana e, ovviamente, afroamericana. Ne è nata così questa Golden City, presentata in anteprima al San Francisco Jazz Center nel 2022 e incisa poi a fine novembre dell'anno seguente. Per l'occasione Zenón (portoricano, lo ricordiamo) ...
Continue ReadingMiguel Zenon: Golden City
by Dan McClenaghan
The alto saxophone rose to jazz prominence in the 1940s, under the influence of Charlie Parker and the birth of bebop. Important players such as Art Pepper, Lee Konitz and Ornette Coleman took the horn in their own directions, crafting distinctive alto saxophone voices. Moving ahead to the new millennium, no alto saxophonist has entered the tradition with more style and panache than Miguel Zenon. His Alma Aldentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music, 2011), Tipico (Miel Music, 2017) and ...
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