Esta Plena
Context
Title track of the album in which the Puerto Rican alto saxophonist revisits the plena, a popular music born in Ponce in the 19th century, an "oral newspaper" of the working classes. Funded by a Guggenheim fellowship and released by Marsalis Music in 2009, the record pairs his quartet with percussionist-singers on panderos; it earned two Grammy nominations.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban, Current scene (New York, Chicago, worldwide). Among the origins and influences of Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban: Afro-diasporic roots, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).