Jazz Articles about David Binney

About David Binney

Extended Analysis

In a career that seems to go from strength to strength and milestone to milestone, it's hard to imagine how David Binney manages to not only release one terrific record after another, but to do so, in some cases, under some pretty constricting terms. Like the five other albums that the influential saxophonist/composer has recorded as a leader or co-leader for the Dutch Criss Cross label--most recently 2010's Aliso and the following year's Barefooted Town--producer and label owner Gerry Teekens ...

Album Review

Moonsun Christophe Schweizer: Opus

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 19, 2012

Un compendio straordinario di tecniche compositive ed improvvisative: questo, in sintesi, è Opus, il nuovo album di Christope Schweizer pubblicato dalla Unit records. Il trombonista svizzero trapiantato prima negli USA poi in Germania torna alla guida di Moonsun, oramai da qualche anno il suo quintetto stabile. L'enciclopedismo stilistico è, in effetti, uno dei tratti distintivi di Schweizer, musicista dagli studi e dagli interessi onnivori. Con questo gruppo, il gusto per le lunghe esecuzioni, per i temi complessi e le frequenti ...

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Album Review

David Binney: Barefooted Town

Read "Barefooted Town" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
August 25, 2011

Since founding Mythology Records in 1998, tireless alto saxophonist David Binney has alternated between issuing ambitious projects on his own label and cutting casual blowing sessions for the Netherlands-based imprint Criss Cross. Continuing this pattern, Barefooted Town is Binney's second release of 2011, following the expansive Graylen Epicenter (Mythology). Despite the limited studio time afforded Binney's Criss Cross dates, this set's intricate originals have more in common with his elaborate Mythology-based endeavors than his usual stripped-down efforts for the Dutch ...

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David Binney: Barefooted Town

Read "Barefooted Town" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
July 7, 2011

Saxophonist David Binney broke new ground with Graylen Epicenter (Mythology, 2011), which was a world unto itself, and shortly before that, he delivered Aliso (Criss Cross, 2010)--a jagged set of music featuring original works and some compositions from visionaries like Sam Rivers, Wayne Shorter and John Coltrane. With Barefooted Town, Binney returns for another outing on the Criss Cross label, bringing a whole batch of originals along for the occasion. While this music contains the rhythmic twists and turns, and ...

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Album Review

David Binney: Barefooted Town

Read "Barefooted Town" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 30, 2011

Alto saxophonist/composer David Binney must not worry about “market saturation." He releases albums, as a leader for both Criss Cross and his own Mythology label, at a rate that many top jazz artists did during the late 1950's and early 1960's. Less than six months into 2011, he has already offered up Graylen Epicenter (Mythology) and now, on Criss Cross, Barefooted Townunder his own name, in addition to sideman and producer gigs over the years for artists like saxophonist Donny ...

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Album Review

David Binney: Barefooted Town

Read "Barefooted Town" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
June 20, 2011

Politics isn't the only thing that increasingly demands clear vision and steadfast commitment (even if it isn't getting it). In the jazz world--where the changing landscape makes getting heard one challenge, acceptance by a broader culture that views “jazz" as a dirty word another--it takes artists with unshakable resolve to stay the course. David Binney has not only honed an instantly recognizable compositional language without the trappings of predictability, he's become a mentor for younger artists, mixing and matching from ...

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Interview

David Binney: Underground Tremors

by Ian Patterson
June 20, 2011

There are recordings that constitute a personal high watermark for a composer; then there are, less frequently, recordings that mark an era. Graylen Epicenter (2011), alto saxophonist David Binney's latest recording on his own label, Mythology Records, is both. For more than two decades, this exhilarating alto saxophonist has made a string of absorbing recordings as leader that have cemented his reputation as one of the most exciting and original musicians/composers in New York. By his own admission, ...