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Originally Posted by Dondilion
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I like it. Very, very Latin but definitely jazz. It's often pretty complex rhythmically, a little bit "outside" but accessible nonetheless. His sidemen are all people I've never heard of but they're all first rate.
Zenon is quite a good alto player. He was out here with the SF Jazz Collective for a time and I got to hear him a few times. He's also a Guggenheim and a MacArthur Fellow and is using his MacArthur grant to explore traditional Puerto Rican song forms.
"Jibaro" is, I think, his first album to go in that direction. The jibaro are the mountain people of Puerto Rico and have a music tradition that harkens back to their Indian roots. His next album is called "Esta Plena", the plena being yet another Puerto Rican musical form. I Like that one too. After that comes "Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook" which I have yet to hear.
John