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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

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

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.

Passerine

By Stephan Crump

Label: Out Of Your Head Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Stuck; Glide; Weavers; Twenty-Five; Scrapes; Bryn; Fly

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

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.

Canopy

By Lex Korten

Label: Sounderscore
Released: 2025
Track listing: Oasis Without; Abyssal Sleep; Air Below Sky; Summerlude · The Bazaar; Lime to Gold (Intro); Talking Rain; A Sunshower Vignette; Solstice I; Solstice II; Winterlude · To Be Home; Wind Chime Watching; make/believe; opening; Mulu The Rain Forest (Bonus Track).

For These Streets

By Adam O'Farrill

Label: Out Of Your Head Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Swimmers; Nocturno, 1932; Scratching the Surface of a Dream; Migration; Speeding Blots of Ink; Streets; And So On; The Break Had Not Come; Rose; Late June.