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MIGUEL ZENON tells Chris Searle why his latest album pays tribute to one of the great Puerto Rican singers
FIONA O CONNOR recommends an unflinching depiction of child sexual abuse and its aftershocks, set in a working-class Liverpool family
New releases from Paul Weller, Wet Leg, and Dino Saluzzi
PAUL DONOVAN relishes the spectacle of a 1950s detective in pursuit of a 500-year-old murder mystery
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
“IT WASN'T until I started to write my own music and conceptualise what I wanted to do as a musician that I started to consider my musical roots,” says the beautifully fluid alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon.
Paying tribute: Miguel Zenon (Pic: Michael Hoefner/Creative Commons)
“I wanted to strike a balance between the Puerto Rican folk and the jazz traditions, which have a lot in common.”
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