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October 16 Festival Kick-Off Event
Garfield High School Jazz Band
w/ special guest Miguel ZenÓn
The Triple Door, 7 & 9:30 $22 general, $11 youth BUY ONLINE
Celebrating the future of jazz in Seattle and around the world, the multi-award-winning Garfield High School Jazz Band, under the direction of Clarence Acox, kicks off the 2009 Earshot Jazz Festival with recent MacArthur Award-winning saxophonist Miguel Zenón.
Zenón was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. There, he studied classical saxophone at the famed Escuela Libre de Musica. Although Zenón was exposed to jazz while in high school, it wasn’t until he began his studies at the Berklee School of Music that his formal jazz training began. In his relatively short, but rather illustrious career, Zenón has performed and/or recorded with quite a diverse array of artists, including David Sanchez, Charlie Haden, The Village Vanguard Orchestra, Bobby Hutcherson, Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos, and Steve Coleman, among others. He is also one of the founding members of the SF Jazz Collective.
He has released four recordings as a leader. His debut CD Looking Forward was selected by the New York Times as the number one independent jazz record of 2002. In 2004, after being one of the first artists signed to Marsalis Music, he released the critically acclaimed Ceremonial. This same year also marked the beginning of three consecutive years on the top of the Downbeat Critic’s Poll in the Rising Star Alto Sax category.
In April 2008, Zenón received a fellowship from the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Foundation to work on his next project, which focused on plena music from Puerto Rico. The resulting recording, Esta Plena (2009), will be released on October 20 by Marsalis Music. Earthy and sophisticated, the music of Esta Plena is reinterpreted with the sensibility, the approach, and the tools of 21st century jazz. It is Zenón’s first new work since receiving both the MacArthur and the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008 – the first time a jazz musician has been awarded both on a single calendar year.
Zenón has also made teaching a priority in his professional career. In 2003, as part of the Kennedy Center’s Jazz Ambassador’s Program, Zenón’s quartet was selected to teach and perform throughout West Africa. Since then he has done master classes, clinics, and residencies at such diverse institutions as the Banff Centre, the Brubeck Institute, Berklee College of Music, Conservatoire de Paris, Manhattan School of Music, and the Diaz Institute.
Zenón will perform with Seattle’s award-winning Garfield High School Jazz Band, which, under the 38-year leadership of Clarence Acox, was the winner of last year’s Essentially Ellington National Jazz Band Competition and Festival in New York. The band has also performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Jazz a Vienne in France, and the North Sea Jazz Festival.
Garfield High School Jazz Band
w/ special guest Miguel ZenÓn
The Triple Door, 7 & 9:30 $22 general, $11 youth BUY ONLINE
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| Photo by Frank Stewart |
Zenón was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. There, he studied classical saxophone at the famed Escuela Libre de Musica. Although Zenón was exposed to jazz while in high school, it wasn’t until he began his studies at the Berklee School of Music that his formal jazz training began. In his relatively short, but rather illustrious career, Zenón has performed and/or recorded with quite a diverse array of artists, including David Sanchez, Charlie Haden, The Village Vanguard Orchestra, Bobby Hutcherson, Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos, and Steve Coleman, among others. He is also one of the founding members of the SF Jazz Collective.
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In April 2008, Zenón received a fellowship from the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Foundation to work on his next project, which focused on plena music from Puerto Rico. The resulting recording, Esta Plena (2009), will be released on October 20 by Marsalis Music. Earthy and sophisticated, the music of Esta Plena is reinterpreted with the sensibility, the approach, and the tools of 21st century jazz. It is Zenón’s first new work since receiving both the MacArthur and the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008 – the first time a jazz musician has been awarded both on a single calendar year.
Zenón has also made teaching a priority in his professional career. In 2003, as part of the Kennedy Center’s Jazz Ambassador’s Program, Zenón’s quartet was selected to teach and perform throughout West Africa. Since then he has done master classes, clinics, and residencies at such diverse institutions as the Banff Centre, the Brubeck Institute, Berklee College of Music, Conservatoire de Paris, Manhattan School of Music, and the Diaz Institute.
Zenón will perform with Seattle’s award-winning Garfield High School Jazz Band, which, under the 38-year leadership of Clarence Acox, was the winner of last year’s Essentially Ellington National Jazz Band Competition and Festival in New York. The band has also performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Jazz a Vienne in France, and the North Sea Jazz Festival.
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