Jazz Articles about David Binney

About David Binney

Album Review

If a musical work aspires to the adventurous, it is essential to have musicians who can confidently navigate the terrain. Saxophonist David Binney has assembled such a crew on South : tenorist Chris Potter, guitarist Adam Rogers, pianist Uri Caine, and bassist Scott Colley, plus Brian Blade or Jim Black on drums. The opening “Out Beyond Ideas" is layered like a story with several chapters. Potter wails passionately above the soaring vamp until everyone gently alights to ...

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David Binney & Edward Simon: Afinidad

Read "Afinidad" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
August 1, 2001

Alto saxophonist David Binney and pianist Edward Simon share top billing with this new effort, released on the Italy-based “Red Records" jazz label, and while the duo have collaborated in the recent past, Afinidad signifies a tightly integrated celebration of two distinct musical personas.The soloists pursue multicolored vignettes, featuring highly charged motifs brimming with oscillating countercurrents, majestically stated melodies and steamy opuses, witnessed on pieces such as the opener, “Red" and the Latin-Caribbean tinged, “Pere." Additionally, Binney and ...

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David Binney: South

by Glenn Astarita
July 1, 2001

While saxophonist/composer David Binney has made a significant contribution to modern jazz with his involvement in the high-octane New York City-based outfit “Lan Xang," amid fine recordings on his “Mythology" label and numerous high profile session dates, the artist has eluded widespread recognition. However, Binney has steadily constructed a budding reputation as a strong composer who possesses a praiseworthy technique whether performing on alto or soprano saxophone. With his latest effort titled South, the saxophonist reaps the good fortunes of ...

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David Binney: Free To Dream

Read "Free To Dream" reviewed by John W. Patterson

by John W. Patterson
August 1, 1999

Binney is known to many as the sax genius of Lost Tribe and his skill is no less evident herein — in Binney's chosen dreamworld, a musical vibe, a flow, where he is free. Running his own record label, going the freshly popular independent route, affords total control and thus creativity and style unbounded by the prickly hedges of commercialism's maze.Believe me, this spirit works well to my ears. Binney's eleven compositions echo a fuller, matured Lost Tribe ...

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Lost Tribe: Many Lifetimes

Read "Many Lifetimes" reviewed by John W. Patterson

by John W. Patterson
February 1, 1999

It is good to hear more of this phenomenal jazz unit. From their debut self-titled release in 1992 to Soulfish in 1993 it was pure ecstasy for me to try to keep up with all this band's hyper-kinetic twists and turns. They could Coltrane soothe, they could play heavy metallic fusion, they would rap to jazz, they got speed funky, and even strains of Mahavishnu Orchestra could be detected. But first and foremost Lost Tribe was avant-garde cutting edge jazz. ...

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David Binney: Free To Dream

Read "Free To Dream" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
February 1, 1999

New York City “Downtown Scene" alto saxophonist David Binney has produced a winner here. Binney has gained some much-deserved recognition due to his dazzling virtuosity with artists such as Drew Gress, Edward Simon and the beloved hard-edged jazz-fusion band, Lost Tribe. Free To Dream is Binney's first solo effort on his newly formed Mythology Records label. Here, Binney is supported by a mini-brass section, exotic percussion, muscular rhythms and long time associate Edward Simon on the piano. Free To Dream ...

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