Artist: Miguel Zenon
Title Of Album: Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook
Year Of Release: August 30, 2011
Label: Marsalis Music
Genre: Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 Kbps
Total Time: 71:08
Total Size: 168.21 Mb

Artist: Miguel Zenon
Title Of Album: Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook
Year Of Release: August 30, 2011
Label: Marsalis Music
Genre: Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 Kbps
Total Time: 71:08
Total Size: 168.21 Mb

Tracklist:
01.Juguete
02.Incomprendido
03.Silencio
04.Temes
05.Perdon
06.Alma Adentro
07.Olas y Arenas
08.Amor
09.Perfume De Gardenias
10.Tiemblas

When so-called “Latin jazz” comes up in conversation,
music or musicians connected to Cuba or Brazil are usually the
topic of conversation. While it’s true that Afro-Cuban
stylings, bossa nova beats and sizzling samba numbers seem to
dominate in this umbrella category, they’re only the tip of
the iceberg that is the music of Latin America. Thankfully, some
important jazz musicians are helping to broaden the rest of the
world’s view on what Latin America has to offer. Pianist
Danilo Perez has connected the dots between music from his native
Panama and jazz, and alto saxophone star Miguel Zenon is doing the
same thing for Puerto Rico.
While calling somebody a “star” in jazz might seem like
an oxymoron, when considering the lower-than-deserved profile of
the genre on the national and international stages, Zenon fits the
bill like few others. As of the recording of this 2011 album,
Zenon, only in his early thirties, has already carved out a place
as one of the defining saxophone voices of his generation. Having
already received a Guggenheim Fellowship and MacArthur Fellowship
(a.k.a. the “genius grant”) at such an early age, some
feel that he has been wrongfully fast-tracked in a genre where the
experience of elders is usually prized over the enthusiasm and
creative spirit of youth; but his solo albums and continuing work
with the SFJAZZ Collective, as the only remaining charter member of
that groundbreaking group, have confirmed how deserving he really
is of all of the positive press, awards and honors that have been
thrust upon him.