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by: Miguel Zenon
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Released: 2009-10-20
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Title Tracks for Esta Plena
- 1. Villa Palmeras
- 2. Esta Plena
- 3. Oyelo
- 4. Residencial Llorens Torres
- 5. Pandero Y Pagode
- 6. Calle Calma
- 7. Villa Coope
- 8. Qué Será De Puerto Rico?
- 9. Progreso
- 10. Despedida
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Product Description
Marsalis Music is pleased to announce the release of Esta Plena a new studio album by alto saxophonist
and composer Miguel Zenón. Last year, Zenón was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, also called the
genius grant. Remarkably, in 2008, he also received a Guggenheim Fellowship for musical composition,
making Zenón the fi rst jazz musician to receive both awards in the same calendar year.
Esta Plena, a product of his Guggenheim Fellowship, reinterprets plena, a traditional Afro-Caribbean
music from Puerto Rico, with the sensibility and techniques of modern jazz. Initially, what drove these
projects was a personal desire to know more about my own culture, he says. After I left Puerto Rico, I
immersed myself in jazz for a very long time so I wasn t really dealing with Puerto Rican music. I had been
exposed to it growing up, but it wasn t until I began writing my own music that I really started to pay close
attention to it. That s when I decided to explore this music and fi nd out more about my roots.
Esta Plena features Zenón s long-standing quartet Luis Perdomo on acoustic piano, Hans Glawischnig
on bass, and Henry Cole on drums, spectacularly augmented with Héctor Tito Matos, Obanilú Allende,
and Juan Gutiérrez on vocals and panderos (hand-held single-head drums).
and composer Miguel Zenón. Last year, Zenón was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, also called the
genius grant. Remarkably, in 2008, he also received a Guggenheim Fellowship for musical composition,
making Zenón the fi rst jazz musician to receive both awards in the same calendar year.
Esta Plena, a product of his Guggenheim Fellowship, reinterprets plena, a traditional Afro-Caribbean
music from Puerto Rico, with the sensibility and techniques of modern jazz. Initially, what drove these
projects was a personal desire to know more about my own culture, he says. After I left Puerto Rico, I
immersed myself in jazz for a very long time so I wasn t really dealing with Puerto Rican music. I had been
exposed to it growing up, but it wasn t until I began writing my own music that I really started to pay close
attention to it. That s when I decided to explore this music and fi nd out more about my roots.
Esta Plena features Zenón s long-standing quartet Luis Perdomo on acoustic piano, Hans Glawischnig
on bass, and Henry Cole on drums, spectacularly augmented with Héctor Tito Matos, Obanilú Allende,
and Juan Gutiérrez on vocals and panderos (hand-held single-head drums).
Product Details
Esta Plena
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2009-10-20)
- Publisher: Marsalis Music
- Label: Marsalis Music
- Studio: Marsalis Music
- Average Customer Review: based on 7 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #15766
Customer Reviews
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Summary: Gracious grooves 2010-05-25
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very good 2010-05-04
Comment: I grew up listening to this type of music, as I am of latin heritage and I grew up in Panama and Mexico, (and also the United States).
This type of music is nothing new to me. I enjoyed listening to this CD. I also enjoyed Miguel's original jazz composition's.
I am new to jazz and I am trying to learn to appreciate it's sound, so maybe I am not a good evaluator of this music. But, although I did not consider it excellent,(because I don't appreciate jazz that well), I did enjoy listening to it. I find the album to be an odd mix of latin-carribean and african-american jazz sound's.
This type of music is nothing new to me. I enjoyed listening to this CD. I also enjoyed Miguel's original jazz composition's.
I am new to jazz and I am trying to learn to appreciate it's sound, so maybe I am not a good evaluator of this music. But, although I did not consider it excellent,(because I don't appreciate jazz that well), I did enjoy listening to it. I find the album to be an odd mix of latin-carribean and african-american jazz sound's.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent sound 2010-04-14
Comment: Haven't listened to the whole CD yet but what I have heard has been very encouraging.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Excelent Music // Innovation, creativity and Incredible Alto Sax Playing 2010-02-13
Comment: I listened Miguel Zenón from his first albums, like Looking Forward (great music with David Sanchez in some tunes) and Travesía from David Sánchez. I always found he was a great sax player, with excelent ideas, beautiful sound, a very personal approach to music (because of his roots in Puerto Rican music) and very technical frases. Now i bought Awake and Esta Plena and i have to say that this sax player has become a great jazz musician. He makes a fusion of jazz with Puerto Rican music, with very complex tempos, harmonies and with great band work. I thing the music it`s truly new and innovative looking forward to new forms for improvisation and mixture of styles. Thanks for this music, i think he will become one of the greatest jazz musician of this century.
Highly recommended!!!!
Best Regards
Highly recommended!!!!
Best Regards
Customer Rating:
Summary: Miguel Zenon's Esta Plena is terrific! 2010-02-01
Comment: I have several Miguel Zenon CDs and have heard him live. He's an amazing musician--his music is tight, inventive, sometimes surprising and impeccably performed. No wonder this CD was nominated for a Grammy!
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Esta Plena
Some of the best latin jazz has to offer, it is the rare cultural release simultaneously looking two steps forward while glancing one behind.