Miguel Zenón Quartet live at Bremen Broadcast 2009

Miguel Zenón (as)
Luis Perdomo (p)
Hans Glawischnig (b)
Henry Cole (dr)

recorded live at Sendesaal, Radio Bremen, November 2, 2009

1. Esta plena
2. Pandero y Pagode
3. Villa Palmeras
4. Oyelo
5. Que sera de Puerto Rico?
6. Progreso
7. Temes

Miguel Zenón´s great "Esta Plena" album was introduced here earlier on this blog, so I´d like to recommend his earlier album "Awakening" from 2008 with his great quartet you can hear also in this concert, also released on Marsalis Music.

Miguel Zenón Esta Plena Quintet live at WDR Jazz Cologne 2009

Miguel Zenón – as, perc,
Luis Perdomo – p
Hans Glawischnig – b
Henry Cole – dr
Tito Matos – perc

recorded live at Stadtgarten Köln, October 31, 2009

1. Villa Coope
2. Qué Será De Puerto Rico?
3. Progreso
4. Despedida

I already introduced Miguel Zenon and his really great CD "Esta Plena" to you, the readers of this blog earlier. This here is a fiery concert recorded live in Cologne/ Germany this year. Enjoy!

Miguel Zenón Quartet live at JazzBaltica 2009

Miguel Zenón - Alto Saxophone

Luis Perdomo - Piano
Hans Glawischnig - Bass
Henry Cole - Drums

recorded live at Kleine Konzertscheune Salzau, Germany, July 5, 2009

1. Oyelo
2. Pandero Y Pagode
3. Villa Plameras
4. Esta Plena

Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow Miguel Zenón was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. There, he studied classical saxophone at the famed Escuela Libre de Musica. Although Zenón was exposed to jazz while in high school, it wasn’t until he began his studies at the Berklee School of Music that his formal jazz training began.
In 2004 Zenón was asked to become one of the founding members of the SF Jazz Collective.
Esta Plena, his latest outing on cd, was released on Marsalis Music.
Earthy and sophisticated, the music of Esta Plena suggests a summing up of the work of saxophonist and composer Miguel Zenón thus far. It is rooted in the traditional plena music of Zenón´s native Puerto Rico – reinterpreted with the sensibility, the approach and the tools of 21st century jazz.