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Miguel Zenon: Ceremonial
by Mark F. Turner
The young Marsalis Music label continues to produce interesting recordings with a mindset of creating music that expresses individuality as well as substance. Last year's releases featured guitarist Doug Wamble's Country Libations and Harry Connick Jr.'s instrumental Other Hours, which created fresh and progressive approaches. Alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon continues on that path in 2004 with his auspicious release Ceremonial.
A native of a San Juan, Puerto Rico, Zenon's new recording brings not only Latin persuasions but also a refined ...
Continue ReadingMiguel Zenon: Looking Forward
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Miguel Zenon, the star pupil of the Berklee in Puerto Rico program associated with the Heineken Jazzfest, is Looking Forward in his first release to assorted musical inroads in jazz through a noteworthy effort. The only three tunes he did not write, for example, are superbly handled and given attractive new profiles under Zen'n's scalpel-like alto sax, touched with darkened matter full of life.
As a self-avowed Christian, Zenon opens and closes with musical compositions in lieu of ...
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