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David Leon

David Leon is a Cuban-American saxophonist, woodwinds player, composer, and improviser living in Brooklyn, New York. His work is guided by a persistent search for vitality through autonomy, contradiction, hyperbole, and humor. His work with the saxophone investigates alternate methods for producing a tone, refinement of these techniques, and development of a distinct vocabulary using these sounds; he melds this timbral approach with melodic and rhythmic phrasing from Cuban folkloric traditions, narrative playing, Free Jazz & avant-garde esthetics, and microtonality to reveal a personal conceit. David was a 2025 Jerome Artist Resident at Roulette Intermedium and was recognized in the 2026 Rising Star categories for alto and soprano saxophones by Downbeat Magazine’s Critics Poll

Passerine

By Stephan Crump

Label: Papillon Sounds
Released: 2026
Track listing: Stuck; Glide; Weavers; Twenty-Five; Scrapes; Bryn; Fly

Partisan Ship

By Phillip Golub

Label: Berthold
Released: 2026
Track listing: loyalty oath; interlude (aboard); partisan ship; interlude (adorn); mutiny meeting; interlude (adrift); blue-orange reflections; cries of the initiated; utopian micronation; afterword: partisan session.

blood memory

By Kayvon Gordon

Label: Close Up
Released: 2026
Track listing: and also; marked, then marking; the body; becomes, not is; writing on air; claim into gesture; gesture into sound; into blood; in tension; the body remembers; at once; in tongues, speaking; knowing; in the cut

Panamerican Orchid Club

By David Leon

Label: Close Up
Released: 2026
Track listing: Panamerican Orchid Club; El Palacio de los Jugos; Leap and a net will appear; Tropical Brutalism; a fleeting sparkle; El Rey De Las Fritas, Spiral Cinema

Leap And A Net Will Appear

December 9, 2026

Album: Panamerican Orchid Club
By David Leon
Label: Close Up
Released: 2026
Duration: 09:02

Stephan Crump: Passerine

by Glenn Astarita
November 5, 2026

Bassist and composer Stephan Crump has rarely been interested in conventional jazz architecture. His ensembles emphasize interaction, with compositions that leave ample space for musicians to reshape the music as it unfolds. On Passerine, Crump leads a quartet featuring Kenny Warren on trumpet, David Leon on alto flute and saxophone and Ches Smith on percussion. Inspired ...

Joe Hertenstein, Alexander Von Schlippenbach & John Coltrane

by Maurice Hogue
October 12, 2026

New releases from Germany this week should attract interest--drummer Joe Hertenstein (often seen in New York) debuts the second release of his Future Drone trio, this time with Anthony Coleman on Hammond B3!!; pianist and father of the European avant-garde Alexander Von Schlippenbach rips it up with a much younger quartet; and the Blumer-Morgenthaler Quartet debuts. ...

Phillip Golub: Partisan Ship

by Mike Jurkovic
May 31, 2026

In a lot off ways, it is a game of catch-up listening to Brooklyn pianist/improvisor/composer Phillip Golub once he kick-starts the oddly titled Partisan Ship into high gear with “Loyalty Oath," a piece of mad musical fiction that holds attention in place with its octopi rhythms and runaway melodies rushing in all at once. 

Mirror Image

By Tal Yahalom

Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Prelude; Hymn for Tomorrow; KIM; Tri-Tonal; Sleepless; Chorinho for Tati; Sophianic Mess; The Boat Drifts Still; Dusk on Landwehr Canal.