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Esta Plena

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I listened Miguel Zenón from his first albums, like Looking Forward (great music with David Sanchez in some tunes) and Travesía from David Sánchez. I always found he was a great sax player, with excelent ideas, beautiful sound, a very personal approach to music (because of his roots in Puerto Rican music) and very technical frases. Now i bought Awake and Esta Plena and i have to say that this sax player has become a great jazz musician. He makes a fusion of jazz with Puerto Rican music, with very complex tempos, harmonies and with great band work. I thing the music it`s truly new and innovative looking forward to new forms for improvisation and mixture of styles. Thanks for this music, i think he will become one of the greatest jazz musician of this century.

Highly recommended!!!!

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This is simply a great meeting. Perhaps you have heard "Plena" music before but in this case, Miguel transforms the experience with his incredible sax performance all along the session, added with a shot of standard jazz piano, drums, and bass and a little seasoning of not so usual tambourine and chorus. A nice meet of our jazz brother with the great Plena style. This is highly refreshing to the jazz scene and should not be missed by those with latin jazz spirit and by those that still love the only kind of music capable to combine salt and pepper with bananas.

I have several Miguel Zenon CDs and have heard him live. He's an amazing musician--his music is tight, inventive, sometimes surprising and impeccably performed. No wonder this CD was nominated for a Grammy!

Some of the best latin jazz has to offer, it is the rare cultural release simultaneously looking two steps forward while glancing one behind.

Haven't listened to the whole CD yet but what I have heard has been very encouraging.

I grew up listening to this type of music, as I am of latin heritage and I grew up in Panama and Mexico, (and also the United States).
This type of music is nothing new to me. I enjoyed listening to this CD. I also enjoyed Miguel's original jazz composition's.
I am new to jazz and I am trying to learn to appreciate it's sound, so maybe I am not a good evaluator of this music. But, although I did not consider it excellent,(because I don't appreciate jazz that well), I did enjoy listening to it. I find the album to be an odd mix of latin-carribean and african-american jazz sound's.

Miguel Zenon is an absolute genius. This CD gives me goosebumps each time I hear it. The compositions are wonderful. This is truly an amazing and talented musician. The detail put into composing this project is phenomenal. I can't say enough about this CD. If you are serious music lover, you will not be disappointed in your purchase.

I selected this music for my brother for Christmas. He was very excited and pleased. Thanks!