Sonero: The Music of Ismael Rivera
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LP, CD |
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01:09:56 |
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The Power Station Studio New England, Waterford, Connecticut |
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Sonero: The Music of Ismael Rivera is a jazz album by Miguel Zenón . The recordings were made on March 19 and 20, 2019 in The Power Station Studio New England , Waterford, Connecticut and were released on August 30, 2019 on the Miel Music label .
background
The musician Miguel Zenón, who was born in San Juan , has presented the music of Puerto Rico in several projects and recordings. His previous release Yo Soy la Tradición (Miel Music, 2018) was a quasi-classical jazz suite that honored the folk traditions of Puerto Rico's music, religion, and culture and was written for string quartet and saxophone. Sonero is dedicated to the legendary Puerto Rican singer Ismael Rivera (1931–1987). The album contains eleven salsa songs popularized by Afro-Puerto Rican singer Ismael Rivera.
Rivera often sang in a cocky voice and created dazzling rhythmic phrases, wrote John Murph. It was known that he extended the chorus of a song with sparkling passages or simply improvised over choruses. His work in the 1950s helped introduce Puerto Rican rhythms - bomba and plena - to audiences in the Caribbean and Latin America . Rivera, who died in 1987 at the age of 55, specialized in a distinctly Puerto Rican soneo style, an improvisational form of singing. His style was so valued that he became known as El Sonero Mayor (the greatest Sonero ever). In the 1950s and early 1960s, Rivera was the vocalist for Cortijo y Su Combo , led by the famous composer Rafael Cortijo , who transformed the repertoire of the Afro-Rican vocal and percussion traditions Bomba and Plena into contemporary dance band music. After the group had dissolved, helped Rivera, the foundation for the distinctive Puerto Rican salsa in the Fania style to place, which later emerged in the 1960s in New York City. He created groundbreaking tracks and began his conquest of the dance music world in general. Zenón has developed fascinating versions of Rivera's signature melodies, including “El Negro Bembón”, which tells the tragic story of a black man who was murdered because of his big lips, and “Las Caras Lindas”, a Black is beautiful anthem by Catalino "Tite" Curet .
Track list
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- Miguel Zenón - Sonero: The Music of Ismael Rivera (Miel Music - 888295908221)
- Intro / Maelo a Capella (Brito Clodoaldo, Antonio Figueroa , João Mello) 1:24
- Quítate de la Vía, Perico (Juan Hernández) 7:07
- Las Tumbas ( Bobby Capó ) 7:40
- El negro Bembón (Bobby Capó) 8:16
- La gata Montesa (Israel Plata) 7:15
- Traigo Salsa ( Javier Vazquez ) 5:13
- Las Caras Lindas (Catalino "Tite" Curet Alonso) 7:40
- Hola ( Juan Pablo Torres ) 4:41
- Colobó (Hanzel Arroyo) 5:59
- Si te Contara (Félix Reina) 6:39
- El Nazareno (Henry D. Williams) 8:02
reception
The album received a Grammy nomination in 2019 for Best Latin Jazz Album . Zenón's album received consistently positive reviews. The saxophonist "brilliantly connects the dots between Puerto Rico's improvisational music tradition and his own brand of groundbreaking avant-garde jazz, " wrote Catalina Maria Johnson in Chicago Reader.
It is not possible to hear Miguel Zenón's Sonero: The Music of Ismael Rivera without triggering the thought of another alto saxophonist, namely Charlie Parker , wrote Marc Corroto in All About Jazz . “Like Parker, Zenón has this nimble processing of thought and expression, but what is more relevant is that both artists can translate any style of music into jazz language. While Parker dealt with Latin American music in the macro sense, Zenón came to a micro level. ” Sonero , Corroto continued, also conjured up Charlie Parker in that Rivera was his vocal counterpart in the world of improvised salsa. “His singing revolutionized folk music with a similar level of complexity and innovation. This recording is the ingenious interface between the two men, illuminated by Zenón's Quartet, a 15-year-old group with which four previous albums have been created. ”One of the highlights of the album is the author“ Quítate de La Vía, Perico ”, a 1961 classic , which imitates the approach of a train, as well as the elegant "Las Tumbas" and the rhythmic call and response game in "El Negro Bembón". While Charlie Parker once recorded simple jazz melodies and woven complex connections, Zenón took up this concept again and showed the same innovations that Ismael Rivera anchored in Latin American music.
According to John Murph ( Down Beat ), the alto saxophonist returns to the Puerto Rican songbook with this ingenious homage to famous singer Ismael Rivera, whose work with Cortijo Y Su Combo and Los Cachimbos was just as impressive and impressive as the improvisations of Miguel Zenón today. Zenón takes up many of Rivera's peculiarities as a starting point for his music. The result is great, especially the bubbly chord of the saxophonist with his bandmates. Luis Perdomo conveyed a large part of the elegiac drama that surged in Rivera's songs through its impressive piano accompaniments and rhythmically agile improvisations, as the slippery revision of "Quítate De La Via, Perico" shows. The quartet's rhythmic engine - bassist Hans Glawischnig and drummer Henry Cole - guide the band leader's exploratory passages through unexpected corridors, maintain the logical momentum and at the same time take on the dynamic suppleness. Zenón shows himself to be a consistently clever improviser who often gets involved with glowing lines that zigzag as if compositions were acoustic circuit diagrams. This Brio is certainly present on this recording, but there is a newly discovered emotional warmth in his work, especially in the sensual "Traigo Salsa" and the resounding "Si Te Contara".
George W. Harris wrote in Jazz Weekly that Miguel Zenón was continuing his journey with this album to bring music from his legacy to modern jazz history . According to the author, the alto saxophonist acts at the highest level on the entire album, sublime on "Si Te Contara" and reflective on "Hola". Rivera's embedded melodies are captured in this captivating collection.
Web links
- Listing of the album on Allmusic (English). Retrieved December 19, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Marc Caorroto: Miguel Zenon: Sonero: The Music of Ismael Rivera. All About Jazz, September 1, 2019, accessed December 17, 2019 .
- ^ Miguel Zenon: Sonero: The Music of Ismael Rivera. Jazztreil, September 10, 2019, accessed December 7, 2019 .
- ^ A b John Murph: Miguel Zenon: Sonero: The Music of Ismael Rivera. Down Beat, October 1, 2019, accessed December 17, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Catalina Maria Johnson: Saxophonist Miguel Zenón interprets the music of legendary salsa singer Ismael “Maelo” Rivera. Chicago Reader, September 12, 2019, accessed December 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Miguel Zenón - Sonero: The Music of Ismael Rivera at Discogs
- ↑ 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2019): Nominations - Best Latin Jazz Album: Sonero: The Music of Ismael Rivera
- ↑ George W. Harris: Miguel Zenon: Sonero: The Music of Ismael Rivera. Jazz Weekly, September 2, 2019, accessed December 7, 2019 .