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Jazz Festival: Miguel Zenón Quartet

April 20, 2012
All Day
Wexner Center Performance Space, 1871 N. High St..



As part of the OSU Jazz Festival, the Wexner Center presents Miguel Zenón. He has been honored with one of the MacArthur Foundation's prestigious "genius awards" in recognition of his progressive jazz, which plumbs the depths of Latin music–particularly the roots of his own heritage in Puerto Rico–and of his own originality. Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook, the 2011 release featured in the quartet's concert here, was recently selected as #1 Best Jazz Album of 2011 by NPR, placed in New York Times critic Nate Chinen's 2011 top ten list, and nominated for a Grammy. Previous outstanding recordings include Esta Plena (2009), in which "the instrumental prowess of Zenón's playing, the vigor of his compositions, and the sensitivity of his band to Puerto Rican song forms point to new possibilities in jazz" (Chicago Tribune).