Out August 28, 2026 via Miel Music
Saxophonist Miguel Zenón and pianist Luis Perdomo release El Arte del Bolero, Vol. 3, the anticipated third instalment in their celebrated series.
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Jun
[ June 26, 2026 release via Miel Music – Miguel Zenón & Barcelona Art Orchestra – Expressions ]
release date: June 26, 2026 on Miel Music
Barcelona Art Orchestra & Miguel Zenón explore the many faces of human expression in a new large-scale work. Expressions – Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra, a collective composition by four leading voices of the Barcelona jazz scene.
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Aug
[ August 29th, 2025 release via Miel Music: Miguel Zenón 4tet – Vanguardia Subterránea, Live at The Village Vanguard ]
Out August 29, 2025 via Miel Music
Revered Saxophonist/Composer Miguel Zenón Celebrates 20th Anniversary of his Quartet with the Group’s First-Ever Live Album Vanguardia Subterránea, recorded at NYC’s legendary Village Vanguard. Zenón’s Quartet featuring pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Hans Glawischnig, and drummer Henry Cole.
Available on Vinyl, CD and all Streaming services. Album release shows at the Vanguard from Tuesday, September 16 to Sunday, September 21, 2025
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Aug
[ August the 30th, 2024 release on Miel Music: Miguel Zenon – Golden City ]
I feel that Golden City – saxophonist and composer Miguel Zenón’s sweeping suite inspired by the complex and promising history of the Bay Area – is a masterpiece.
Featuring a brilliant band with Zenón, Miles Okazaki, Matt Mitchell, Dan Weiss, Chris Tordini, Daniel Díaz, Alan Ferber, Diego Urcola, and Jacob Garchik, the album will be released August 30 via Miel Music.
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Mar
[ March 29th, 2024 release via Cygnus Recordings: Dan Weiss, Miguel Zenón and Matt Mitchell – Even Odds ]
One of the most lauded drummers in modern jazz, Dan Weiss, releases his daring and compelling new trio album Even Odds – featuring longtime collaborators alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón and pianist Matt Mitchell – on March 29, 2024 via Cygnus Recordings.
“Undeniably virtuosic and progressive, Weiss works in unconventional ways.” – Filipe Freitas, JazzTrail
“[Weiss is] best known as a virtuosic, in-demand jazz drummer… and an ambitious, imaginative bandleader.” – Hank Shteamer, The New York Times
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Aug
[ August 25th, 2023 release via Miel Music: Miguel Zenón & Luis Perdomo – El Arte del Bolero Volume 2 ]
Saxophonist Miguel Zenón and pianist Luis Perdomo’s 2021 album El Arte Del Bolero was, as Morgan Enos wrote in JazzTimes, “Endlessly listenable, emotionally probing, and ECM-level atmospheric…a treasure box you’ll return to again and again.”
Now the two masters are back with the follow-up, simply titled El Arte Del Bolero Vol. 2, slated for digital release August 25, 2023 via Zenon’s Miel Music.
They celebrate the album with concerts:
– Tuesday, August 22 at An Die Musik in Baltimore / – Wednesday, August 23 Solar Myth in Philadelphia / – Thursday, August 24 at Joe’s Pub in NYC
“Endlessly listenable, emotionally probing, and ECM-level atmospheric, El Arte del Bolero is a treasure box you’ll return to again and again.” – Morgan Enos, JazzTimes
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Nov
[ November the 11th, 2022 release via Sunnyside Records: Jason Yeager – Unstuck in Time, The Kurt Vonnegut Suite ]
Due out via Sunnyside Records on the author’s 100th birthday, November 11, 2022, Unstuck in Time: The Kurt Vonnegut Suite features Yeager’s gifted septet along with guest soloist Miguel Zenón
“ [Jason] always impressed me with his talent, his curiosity and his desire to create his own music while really investigating the jazz piano tradition.” – Fred Hersch, pianist/composer, Doris Duke fellow
“This music is marvelous and I believe would have been right up my father’s alley.” – Edith Vonnegut, artist
Album Release Concerts Oct. 28 Framingham, MA; Oct. 29 Portland, ME; Nov. 10 South Bend, IN; Nov. 11 Indianapolis, IN; Nov. 12 Jasper, IN; December 9 Brooklyn, NY and more
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Aug
[August the 26th, 2022 new release on Miel Music: Miguel Zenón – Música de Las Américas]
Out August 26, 2022 on Miel Music, Música de Las Américas features all-new music from Zenón for his long-time working quartet plus master percussionists from his native Puerto Rico.
“This music is inspired by the history of the American continent: not only before European colonization, but also by what’s happened since—cause and effect,” says Miguel Zenón of his latest album of all original works, Música de Las Américas. The music grew out of Zenón’s passion for the history of the American continent, and the resulting album pays tribute to its diverse cultures while also challenging modern assumptions about who and what “America” is.
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Jun
[ June the 11th, 2021 release via Pyroclastic Records: Ches Smith and We All Break – Path of Seven Colors]
release date: 11.06.2021 via Pyroclastic Records
The recording and accompanying film showcase the band’s synergistic connection and exhilarating, alchemical mix of musical forms
5-stars. “Haitian traditions inspire the percussionist’s exhilarating hybrid of melodic drums, evocative vocals and fiery improvisation… Smith wanted the resources of traditional vocalists, highly melodic drummers and melody-instrument jazz improvisers to become
4-stars. “Smith brings a jazz sensibility, opening the band to exploration and excavation into the pieces he built from drum patters with new songs written by and traditional tunes woven in by Brevil…The results are inviting and engaging, playing to tradition without being beholden to it.” – Kurt Gottschalk, Stereophile
5 stars. “The pieces are all profoundly original…. simply extraordinary, innovative and important…infinitely beautiful and pure…. a truly rare work that – at these levels of quality – has never really been even imagined before.” – Vic Albani, All About Jazz Italia – Album of the Week
“I’ve been on the scene, and know a lot of people, but projects like this are the kind of thing you live for.” – saxophonist and MacArthur Fellow Miguel Zenón
With its remarkable merging of traditional Haitian Vodou with contemporary jazz and beyond, the groundbreaking album
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[ January the 8th, 2021 release via Miel Music: Miguel Zenón & Luis Perdomo – El Arte Del Bolero ]
release date: 08.01.2021 via Miel Music
On September 28, 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, alto saxophone icon Miguel Zenón and pianist Luis Perdomo recorded a concert at The Jazz Gallery in New York City which was livestreamed in November. When they listened to the recording of the concert, they knew it was something to share.