Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/01/2013
7:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Location
Miner Auditorium, SFJAZZ Center
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“This young musician and composer is at once reestablishing the artistic, cultural, and social tradition of jazz while creating an entirely new jazz language for the 21st century. ” — MacArthur Foundation
“The instrumental prowess of Zenon’s playing, the vigor of his compositions and the sensitivity of his band to Puerto Rican song forms point to new possibilities in jazz ” — Chicago Tribune
Miguel Zenón – alto saxophone
Luis Perdomo – piano
Hans Glawischnig – bass
Henry Cole – drums
David Dempewolf – videographer
Will Vinson, Michael Thomas – alto saxophone
John Ellis, Samir Zarif – tenor saxophone
Chris Cheek – baritone saxophone
Mat Jodrell, Michael Rodriguez, Johnathan Powell, Alex Norris – trumpet
Jacob Garchik, Alan Ferber, Timothy Albright – trombone
Zenón presents another West Coast premiere with Identities Are Changeable: Tales From the Diaspora, his most ambitious project yet. A song cycle for his quartet augmented by a 12-piece big band and video installation by David Dempewolf, the evening-length work explores the experience of Puerto Ricans who have moved to the mainland, particularly New York City. Inspired by a series of interviews Zenón conducted with Nuyoricans, Identities weaves audio and video excerpts throughout the cycle.
About Miguel Zenón
As a founding member of the SFJAZZ Collective in 2004, Miguel Zenón was a conspicuously talented, largely unknown 27-year-old saxophonist getting set to release his second album. Almost a decade later, Zenón is the most celebrated altoist of his generation, a multi Grammy nominee and Guggenheim and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow who has extended jazz’s conceptual reach with a series of albums exploring the music of Puerto Rico, where he was born. Deepening his relationship with SFJAZZ as a Resident Artistic Director, Zenón presents a series of projects that showcase his ever-expanding vision as a composer inspired by West Africa and an ingenious interpreter of the folkloric and popular music of Puerto Rico.
Performance includes a Pre-Concert Talk that begins one hour before show time.
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