Miguel Zenón - Internal Melodies (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

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Miguel Zenón’s impressive career takes in 14 years as lead alto saxophonist with the starry SFJazz Collective, 15 own-name albums and a long list of sideman credits. Best known for exploring the roots and strands of Puerto Rican music, recent releases include two volumes of El Arte Del Bolero, a warm-hearted duet with pianist Luis Perdomo, and Law Years, an original take on the Ornette Coleman songbook.

Pianist Dan Tepfer is less known, but 10-plus albums reveal a similar exploratory bent, and chunky sideman credits include the late saxophonists Lee Konitz and Pharoah Sanders. This year’s Inventions/Reinventions took a left-field look at Bach’s Two-Part Inventions while 2019’s epic Natural Machines, which was five years in the making, merged piano and computer science.

TRACKLIST

1. Miguel Zenón - Soundsheets
2. Miguel Zenón - A Thing and Its Opposite
3. Miguel Zenón - La Izquierda Latina Americana
4. Miguel Zenón - Fanfares
5. Miguel Zenón - Internal Melodies
6. Miguel Zenón - Centro de Gravedad
7. Miguel Zenón - I Know
8. Miguel Zenón - La Libertad
9. Miguel Zenón - Frontline
10. Miguel Zenón - Solstice
11. Miguel Zenón - 317 E 32nd St
12. Miguel Zenón - Freedrum



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