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Esta Plena

Esta Plena

Marsalis Music is pleased to announce the release of Esta Plena a new studio album by alto saxophonist
and composer Miguel ZenÃ³n. Last year, ZenÃ³n 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 ZenÃ³n 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 ZenÃ³n s long-standing quartet Luis Perdomo on acoustic piano, Hans Glawischnig
on bass, and Henry Cole on drums, spectacularly augmented with HÃ©ctor Tito Matos, ObanilÃº Allende,
and Juan GutiÃ©rrez on vocals and panderos (hand-held single-head drums).
Country USA
Manufacturer MARSALIS MUSIC
Binding Audio CD
ReleaseDate 2009-10-03
UnitCount 1
UPCs 874946001205
EANs 0874946001205

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