{"id":2931,"date":"2011-09-13T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2011-09-13T12:12:22","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T19:12:22","slug":"cd-miguel-zenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/09\/cd-miguel-zenon\/","title":{"rendered":"CD: Miguel Zen\u00c3\u00b3n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Miguel Zen\u00c3\u00b3n<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Alma-Adentro-Puerto-Rican-Songbook\/dp\/B0058IA6J4?s=music&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1315884819&#038;sr=1-1?_encoding=UTF8&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Alma Adentro<\/em><\/a>: The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Zenon-Alma-Adentro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Zenon-Alma-Adentro.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Zenon Alma Adentro\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Zenon-Alma-Adentro.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Zenon-Alma-Adentro-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Zenon-Alma-Adentro-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a>When Zen\u00c3\u00b3n won a MacArthur \u00e2\u20ac\u0153genius grant\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Fellowship in 2008, he said that it would allow him to further his goal of exploring and disseminating the music of his native Puerto Rico. <em>Alma Adentro<\/em> carries forward that work. If it lacks the raw excitement of much of his 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Esta-Plena-Miguel-Zenon\/dp\/B002JCMZEQ?s=music&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1315885787&#038;sr=1-1?_encoding=UTF8&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Esta Plena<\/em><\/a>, the new album brings satisfactions through elegance and depth of sophistication in classic songs by major <em>Puertorrique\u00c3\u00b1o<\/em> composers. The fire and liquidity of Ze\u00c3\u00b1on\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s alto saxophone work is beautifully set in Guillermo Klein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ensemble arrangements. Ze\u00c3\u00b1on\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quintet is, simply, one of the best bands in jazz today. You may feel compelled to dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miguel Zen\u00c3\u00b3n, Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music). When Zen\u00c3\u00b3n won a MacArthur \u00e2\u20ac\u0153genius grant\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Fellowship in 2008, he said that it would allow him to further his goal of exploring and disseminating the music of his native Puerto Rico. Alma Adentro carries forward that work. If it lacks the raw excitement of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}