San Francisco ยป Calendar ยป Miguel Zenon: Identities at SFJAZZ Center
Miguel Zenon: Identities at SFJAZZ Center
Where
SFJAZZ Center
201 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA
Map
866.920.5299
When
Sat, June 1, 2013
7:30pm
At Door
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Musicians
About
As a founding member of the SFJAZZ Collective in 2004, alto saxophonist Miguel Zenรณn has become one of the most celebrated alto saxophonists and composers of his generation as well as a multiple Grammy nominee and Guggenheim and MacArthur โGeniusโ Fellow. Deepening his relationship with SFJAZZ as a Resident Artistic Director, Zenรณn presents a series of projects that showcase his ever-expanding vision as a composer inspired by West Africa and an ingenious interpreter of the folkloric and popular music of Puerto Rico. Zenรณn presents a West Coast premiere, his most ambitious project yet, with Identities, a song cycle for his quartet augmented by a 12-piece big band and video installation by David Dempewolf. The week closes with an evening of duos featuring Venezuelan-born pianist Luis Perdomo and Puerto Rican percussion maestro Paoli Mejias....
