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Miguel Zenon

Born: December 30, 1976

A native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Miguel Zenón studied saxophone at the famed Escuela Libre de Musica; an institution that boasts distinguished alumnus throughout the musical world. Although Zenón listened to and explored the music of Charlie Parker and other jazz greats while in high school, it wasn't until he began his studies at the Berklee School of Music, where he received a scholarship from the Puerto Rico Heineken Jazz Festival, that his formal jazz training began.

Zenón excelled at Berklee and received the Berklee Best Scholarship Award, the Frederic Cameron Weber Award and a grant from the Corporation of Musical Arts while in attendance. It was also during this time that he became active in the Boston area jazz scene and gained professional experience with the drummer Bob Moses' Mozamba and the Either/Orchestra.

Painter Of Dreams

By Misha Tsiganov

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2024
Track listing: Elusive Dots; April; Up Journey; Painter Of Dreams; Long Ago and Far Away; Seeley Street Song; Chain of Events; I Loves You Porgy.

Even Odds

By Dan Weiss

Label: Cygnus Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: It Is What It Is; The Children of Uvalde; Bu; Rising; Recover the Mindset; M and M; Horizontal Lifestyle; Vertical Lifestyle; Five to Nine; Ititrefen; Too Many Outs; Runner-Runner; Nineteen to the Dozen; Max Roach; Bribes and Ultimatums; Royal Beatings; Fathers and Daughters; Peculiar Pathos of Self Importance; Conversing With Stillness; Nusrat.

Golden City

By Miguel Zenon

Label: Miel Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Sacred Land; Rush; Acts of Exclusion; 9066; Displacement and Erasure; SRO; Wave of Change; Sanctuary City; Cultural Corridor; The Power of Community; Golden.

Dan McClenaghan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Dan McClenaghan
December 9, 2024

These recordings are 2024's best of the best. If the business of jazz is a rough go, the art of jazz thrives. Click on the album titles to see the full reviews. Bill AnschellImprobable Solutions Origin Records David FriesenThis Light Has ...

Thélonius García, Neta Raanan, Christopher Parnis, Pat Thomas

by Cheryl K.
November 8, 2024

During this week's two-hour program of Jazz and improvised music, selections from new releases by pianist and composer Thélonius García, tenor saxophonist Neta Raanan, bassist Christopher Parnis, violinist and composer Jenny Scheinman, guitarist David Bailis, and keyboardist Pat Thomas. Playlist Henry Mancini and His Orchestra “"The Pink Panther" Theme" from The Return of the ...

Miguel Zenón: Golden City

by Alberto Bazzurro
November 5, 2024

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 ...

Noam Tanzer

“I believe that Noam will be a major voice on the bass for the years to come” – Bob Gullotti

Noam Tanzer is a young bassist, songwriter, and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. Playing both electric and double bass, Tanzer is part of many different musical communities and is surrounded by a diverse world of styles varying from improvised music to hardcore metal, from indie rock in Spanish to the music of Billy Strayhorn. Noam is a part of the Mike Stern band and is also actively playing with Grammy winners Miguel Zenon and Paquito D’Rivera. He additionally plays with Julieta Rada, Sean Wayland, and Mei Semones. Tanzer is an alumnus of Berklee College of Music, where he got to share the bandstand with the likes of Kurt Elling, George Garzone, Bill Frisell, Gary Burton, and Terence Blanchard. During his time there, he was selected by UNESCO artist for peace and Grammy-winning pianist Danilo Pérez to attend the highly celebrated Berklee Global Jazz Institute, where he was mentored by masters including John Patitucci, Terri Lyne Carrington, Joe Lovano, George Garzone, Dave Liebman, Ben Street, Adam Cruz, amongst others.

Miguel Zenon: Golden City

by Dan McClenaghan
September 22, 2024

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 ...

Miguel Zenon, Russell Malone & Yvonnick Prene

by Joe Dimino
September 8, 2024

From talented French-born, NYC-based harmonica player Yvonnic Prene and pianist Geoff Keezer, we triumphantly enter the 870th Episode of Neon Jazz. Off an album dedicated to the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim, they do their spin on “Tide." Following that cut, we get into solo work from Keezer and music from his 2000 album Zero One. ...