Sonero is a studio recording made over two days in March this year in Waterford, Connecticut, released on the Miel Music imprint in late-August.
The personnel is the classic Miguel Zenón quartet around for years and excellent live. So, Miguel Zenón on alto saxophone is with Luis Perdomo, piano; Hans Glawischnig, double bass; and Henry Cole, drums.
An innovator: Zenón is one of the greatest jazz alto saxophone players and a composer of note who blends bebop with Puerto Rican folk rhythms and traditions – a tonic for both mind and body.
Here the theme is Ismael (“Maelo”) Rivera (1931-1987) who Zenón describes as “… like Bird, Mozart, Einstein, Ali – he was that guy”. All arrangements are by the saxist who also acted as the producer.
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