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Grammy Award Nomination – Best Latin Jazz Album, 2019 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, 2008 Multiple Grammy Nominee and Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow Miguel Zenón represents a select group of musicians who have masterfully balanced and blended the often-contradictory poles of innovation and tradition. Widely considered as one of the most groundbreaking and influential saxophonists of his generation, he has also developed a unique voice as a composer and as a conceptualist, concentrating his efforts on perfecting a fine mix between Latin American Folkloric Music and Jazz. Zenón's latest release – Sonero: The Music of Ismael Rivera pays tribute to Ismael Rivera, the legendary Puerto Rican vocalist and interpreter who revolutionized Latin-American music in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. The album (which features the award winning Miguel Zenón Quartet) boldly re-imagines classics such as “Las Caras Lindas”, “Quitate de La Via, Perico” and “El Nazareno”, capturing the spirit of Maelo while injecting it with the distinctive boldness of Zenón’s writing. Unheard but not unacknowledged, the stories the lyrics tell float in the heads of the musicians, as they channel the essence of Ismael Rivera into their own instrumental masterwork.