Saxophonist and composer Miguel Zenón is a MacArthur “genius grant” recipient who creates jazz that moves seamlessly between the experimental and the folkloric in an ongoing exploration of his Puerto ...

Just last month, Grammy-nominated jazz musician and composer Miguel Zenón brought the music of Louis Armstrong to the small mountain village of Aibonito in his native Puerto Rico. The free concert was ...

Living in the Bay Area it’s easy to get a slightly skewed perspective on alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón. Music fans here know him best as the last active founding member of the SFJazz Collective, the ...

With the relatively concurrent release of Wayne Shorter's new live recording, Beyond the Sound Barrier, and alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon's Jibaro, there are bound to be comparisons. Like Shorter, ...

The vintage cover photograph on Tipico, of Puerto Rican musicians, might lead one to believe that this is a continuance of alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón's jazz adaptations revolving around his ...

“Genius!” It’s an overused term, even by music-critic standards. It used to be applied to works of recognizable brilliance, like Kind of Blue or A Love Supreme; now it’s slapped on anyone or anything ...

Saxophonist Miguel Zenon grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He has many family members in and around the island's capital and has participated in several recent benefit concerts to raise funds and ...

New Yorkers of Puerto Rican descent are a diverse group. Some were born in Puerto Rico, some have never set foot on the island, and everyone else falls somewhere between. But they do share a special ...

Bloomington's Buskirk-Chumley Theater will be hosting two musical greats over the next few days: noted jazz composer and saxophonist Miguel Zenón and blues guitarist and singer Robert Cray, a ...

The saxophonist and his longtime collaborator Luis Perdomo reimagined some of their favorite Latin American ballads for an album that made deep connections during the pandemic. By Ed Morales On New ...

Preparing for the world premiere of his Hewlett 50-commissioned “Golden City Suite,” Miguel Zenón has been listening back to the voices that inspired his kaleidoscopic composition. A founding member ...