{"id":3426,"date":"2012-03-06T23:21:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T07:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3426"},"modified":"2012-03-06T23:28:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T07:28:54","slug":"zenon-quartet-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/03\/zenon-quartet-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Zenon Quartet On Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because nature insists on taking its course, there has been much here lately about people who have passed on. Inevitably, there will be more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Zenon-Quartet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3427\" title=\"Zenon Quartet\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Zenon-Quartet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a>It is time to affirm life. I encountered video of alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon doing just that last summer as he toured Spain. Because of the surrealistic opening minute or so and the sideways camera perspective throughout, I nearly talked myself out of showing you this, but the excitement and content of the performance carried<!--more--> the day. Zenon, pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Hans Glawischnig (heard, not seen) and drummer Eric Doob played \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Olas y Arenas\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Sylvia Rexach, the influential Puerto Rican songwriter of the 1950s. The piece also appears on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/09\/cd-miguel-zenon.html\" target=\"_blank\">Zenon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most recent CD<\/a>, but not with quite the exhilaration of this July, 2011, version at the Jimmy Glass Jazz Bar in Valencia. The enthusiasm of the audience deserves a share of the credit for elevating the performance.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T5OQ1ASIloo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>&#8220;\u00a1Ol\u00c3\u00a9!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because nature insists on taking its course, there has been much here lately about people who have passed on. Inevitably, there will be more. It is time to affirm life. I encountered video of alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon doing just that last summer as he toured Spain. Because of the surrealistic opening minute or so [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426","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=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}