David Binney
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David Binney is an American alto saxophonist and composer
living in New York City.
and raised in Southern California. His parents were jazz fans, and introduced Binney to jazz musicians such as John Coltrane
, Miles Davis
, Bobby Hutcherson
and Wayne Shorter
. Binney's parents also exposed him to the music of Jimi Hendrix
, Milton Nascimento
, Sly Stone
and a variety of other styles of music that helped foster an interest in a broad spectrum of music. He began to study the saxophone with various teachers in Los Angeles. At the age of 19 he moved to New York City, where he studied with Phil Woods
, Dave Liebman
and George Coleman
. In 1989, Binney was awarded an NEA Grant which he used to record his first album, Point Game on Owl Records.
Binney has performed in basement clubs in New York to jazz festivals in Europe, appeared on stage with Aretha Franklin
, at Carnegie Hall
, and with Maceo Parker
. He has produced all of his own albums, in addition to two of the Lost Tribe
releases. Binney is a founding member of Lost Tribe
and Lan Xang, and has recorded as a sideman for Uri Caine
's Mahler Project, Drew Gress
' Jagged Sky and Medeski, Martin and Wood. David started his record label, Mythology Records, in 1998.
David Binney performs regularly at the 55 Bar
in New York City.
Graylen Epicenter 2011
Aliso 2010
Third Occasion - Mythology Records, 2009: Features Craig Taborn
, Scott Colley
, Brian Blade
, Ambrose Akinmusire
, Brad Mason, Corey King, Andy Hunter
Cities and Desire - Criss Cross Records, 2006: Features Mark Turner
, Craig Taborn, Thomas Morgan, Dan Weiss
Out of Airplanes - Mythology Records, 2006: Features Bill Frisell
, Craig Taborn, Kenny Wollesen
, Eivind Opsvik
Bastion of Sanity – Criss Cross Records, 2005: Features Chris Potter
, Jacob Sacks, Dan Weiss, Thomas Morgan
Fiestas de Agosto – Red Records, 2005: with Edward Simon
Welcome to Life - Mythology Records, 2004: Features Chris Potter, Craig Taborn, Brian Blade, Scott Colley, Adam Rogers
Balance - ACT Records, 2002: Features Wayne Krantz
, Uri Caine
, Tim Lefebvre, Fima Ephron, Donny McCaslin
, Adam Rogers, Jim Black
South - ACT Records, 2001: Features Chris Potter, Uri Caine, Brian Blade, Scott Colley, Adam Rogers, Jim Black
A Small Madness - Auand Records, 2003: with Jeff Hirshfield
Afinidad - RED Records, 2001: with Edward Simon. Features Brian Blade, Scott Colley, Adam Rogers, Lucia Pulido
Lan Xang, Hidden Gardens – Naxos Records, 2000
Lan Xang, Lan Xang - Mythology Records, 1998: Features Scott Colley, Donny McCaslin, Jeff Hirshfield
Free to Dream - Mythology Records, 1998: Features Jeff Hirshfield, Edward Simon, Kenny Wollesen, Scott Colley, Adam Rogers, Donny McCaslin and others
The Luxury of Guessing - Sledgehammer Blues
(formerly AudioQuest Music), 1995: Features Jeff Hirshfield, Scott Colley, Uri Caine, Ben Monder, Donny McCaslin
Point Game - Owl Records/Mesa-Bluemoon Records, 1989: Features Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Edward Simon, Lonnie Plaxico, Adam Rogers
Uri Caine: Mahler Project
Uri Caine: Bach Project
Lost Tribe w/Adam Rogers, Ben Perowsky, Fima Ephron
Global Theory w/David Gilmore, Uri Caine, James Genus, Rodney Holmes
Marvin "Smitty" Smith Electric Band
Wayne Krantz Band
Joel Harrison: Free Country
Kenny Wollesen: "The Wollesens"
Steve Bernstein: Sex Mob w/John Medeski
Gil Evans Orchestra
Maria Schneider Orchestra
Lan Xang w/ Donny McCaslin, Kenny Wollesen, Scott Colley
Drew Gress: Jagged Sky w/Kenny Wollesen, Ben Monder
Bobby Previte: Horse
Edward Simon Group
Cecil Mcbee Band
Eumir Deodato Band
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
living in New York City.
Biography
David was born in Miami, FloridaMiami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
and raised in Southern California. His parents were jazz fans, and introduced Binney to jazz musicians such as John Coltrane
John Coltrane
John William Coltrane was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and later was at the forefront of free jazz...
, Miles Davis
Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...
, Bobby Hutcherson
Bobby Hutcherson
Bobby Hutcherson is a jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His vibraphone playing is suggestive of the style of Milt Jackson in its free-flowing melodicism, but his sense of harmony and group interaction is thoroughly modern...
and Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.He is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer, and many of his compositions have become standards...
. Binney's parents also exposed him to the music of Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
, Milton Nascimento
Milton Nascimento
-Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...
, Sly Stone
Sly Stone
Sly Stone is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, most famous for his role as frontman for Sly & the Family Stone, a band which played a critical role in the development of soul, funk and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1993, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of...
and a variety of other styles of music that helped foster an interest in a broad spectrum of music. He began to study the saxophone with various teachers in Los Angeles. At the age of 19 he moved to New York City, where he studied with Phil Woods
Phil Woods
Philip Wells Woods is an American jazz bebop alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer.-Biography:...
, Dave Liebman
Dave Liebman
Dave Liebman is an American saxophonist and flautist. In June 2010, he received a NEA Jazz Masters lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts.-Biography:...
and George Coleman
George Coleman
George Edward Coleman is an American hard bop saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, known chiefly for his work with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock in the 1960s.-Biography:...
. In 1989, Binney was awarded an NEA Grant which he used to record his first album, Point Game on Owl Records.
Binney has performed in basement clubs in New York to jazz festivals in Europe, appeared on stage with Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
, at Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
, and with Maceo Parker
Maceo Parker
Maceo Parker is an American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s, as well as Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s. Parker was a prominent soloist on many of Brown's hit recordings, and a key part of his band, playing alto, tenor and baritone saxophones...
. He has produced all of his own albums, in addition to two of the Lost Tribe
Lost Tribe
Lost Tribe is an electronic music duo formed by Matt Darey and Red Jerry. The two Englishmen had both been producing and remixing trance music individually since the early 1990s....
releases. Binney is a founding member of Lost Tribe
Lost Tribe
Lost Tribe is an electronic music duo formed by Matt Darey and Red Jerry. The two Englishmen had both been producing and remixing trance music individually since the early 1990s....
and Lan Xang, and has recorded as a sideman for Uri Caine
Uri Caine
Uri Caine is an American classical and jazz pianist and composer.-Early years:The son of Burton Caine, a professor at Temple Law School, Caine began playing piano at seven and studied with French jazz pianist Bernard Peiffer at 12. He later studied at the University of Pennsylvania where he came...
's Mahler Project, Drew Gress
Drew Gress
Drew Gress is an American jazz double-bassist and composer born in Trenton, New Jersey, raised in the Philadelphia area, and currently based in New York City.-Biography:...
' Jagged Sky and Medeski, Martin and Wood. David started his record label, Mythology Records, in 1998.
David Binney performs regularly at the 55 Bar
55 Bar
55 Bar is a jazz club in New York City located at 55 Christopher Street.-History:The 55 Bar has been around since 1919. It was originally a speakeasy during Prohibition....
in New York City.
Discography
Barefooted Town 2011Graylen Epicenter 2011
Aliso 2010
Third Occasion - Mythology Records, 2009: Features Craig Taborn
Craig Taborn
Craig Taborn is an American keyboardist and composer. Playing piano, organ, and Moog synthesizer, Taborn has worked mostly in jazz, although he also does dark ambient and techno music....
, Scott Colley
Scott Colley
Scott Colley is an American jazz bassist and Composer.Scott has performed extensively in bands led by: Herbie Hancock, Jim Hall, Andrew Hill, Michael Brecker, Chris Potter, Pat Metheny, Carmen McRae, Edward Simon, Adam Rogers, Brian Blade, David Binney, Antonio Sanchez, Kenny Werner...
, Brian Blade
Brian Blade
Brian Blade in Shreveport, Louisiana is an American jazz drummer, composer, session musician, and singer-songwriter.-Early years:...
, Ambrose Akinmusire
Ambrose Akinmusire
Ambrose Akinmusire is a jazz trumpeter.In 2007 Akinmusire was the winner of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, and the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition, two of the most prestigious jazz competitions in the world.-Biography:By the time the lone standard...
, Brad Mason, Corey King, Andy Hunter
Cities and Desire - Criss Cross Records, 2006: Features Mark Turner
Mark Turner (musician)
Mark Turner is a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist with several recordings to his credit.-Biographical information:Born in Fairborn, Ohio, and raised in Southern California, Turner originally intended to become a commercial artist. In elementary school he played the clarinet, followed by the alto...
, Craig Taborn, Thomas Morgan, Dan Weiss
Out of Airplanes - Mythology Records, 2006: Features Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell
William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an American guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more...
, Craig Taborn, Kenny Wollesen
Kenny Wollesen
Kenny Wollesen is an American drummer and percussionist.Wollesen lives in New York City. He has recorded and toured with many musicians including Tom Waits, Sean Lennon, Ron Sexsmith, Bill Frisell, Norah Jones, Steven Bernstein and John Zorn. He is a founding member of the New Klezmer Trio and a...
, Eivind Opsvik
Bastion of Sanity – Criss Cross Records, 2005: Features Chris Potter
Chris Potter (jazz saxophonist)
Chris Potter is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist.-Biography:Born in Chicago, Illinois, Potter spent most of his childhood in Columbia, South Carolina where his mother taught psychology at the University of South Carolina...
, Jacob Sacks, Dan Weiss, Thomas Morgan
Fiestas de Agosto – Red Records, 2005: with Edward Simon
Welcome to Life - Mythology Records, 2004: Features Chris Potter, Craig Taborn, Brian Blade, Scott Colley, Adam Rogers
Adam Rogers
Adam Rogers is an American guitarist specializing in post bop, contemporary jazz, and classical music. Rogers has had a prolific and extensive session history as a recording guitarist having played on over 150 commercially released recordings...
Balance - ACT Records, 2002: Features Wayne Krantz
Wayne Krantz
Wayne Krantz is an American jazz fusion guitarist. He has played with top artists such as Steely Dan, Michael Brecker, Billy Cobham, and others, but is most active as a solo performer.-Biography:...
, Uri Caine
Uri Caine
Uri Caine is an American classical and jazz pianist and composer.-Early years:The son of Burton Caine, a professor at Temple Law School, Caine began playing piano at seven and studied with French jazz pianist Bernard Peiffer at 12. He later studied at the University of Pennsylvania where he came...
, Tim Lefebvre, Fima Ephron, Donny McCaslin
Donny McCaslin
Donny McCaslin is an American jazz saxophonist.McCaslin's father was a vibraphonist, and he played in his father's ensemble at the age of twelve. He had his own group in high school which played three years at the Monterey Jazz Festival. He studied under Paul Contos and Brad Hecht, both of whom...
, Adam Rogers, Jim Black
Jim Black
Jim Black is a jazz drummer who has performed with Tim Berne and Dave Douglas, among others. He attended Berklee College of Music....
South - ACT Records, 2001: Features Chris Potter, Uri Caine, Brian Blade, Scott Colley, Adam Rogers, Jim Black
A Small Madness - Auand Records, 2003: with Jeff Hirshfield
Jeff Hirshfield
Jeffrey Lee Hirshfield is an American jazz drummer.Hirshfield studied under Ed Soph. He worked for the Joffrey Ballet in 1976-77 and then played with Mose Allison . During the 1980s he worked with Red Rodney and Ira Sullivan , Toshiko Akiyoshi , and Bennie Wallace...
Afinidad - RED Records, 2001: with Edward Simon. Features Brian Blade, Scott Colley, Adam Rogers, Lucia Pulido
Lan Xang, Hidden Gardens – Naxos Records, 2000
Lan Xang, Lan Xang - Mythology Records, 1998: Features Scott Colley, Donny McCaslin, Jeff Hirshfield
Free to Dream - Mythology Records, 1998: Features Jeff Hirshfield, Edward Simon, Kenny Wollesen, Scott Colley, Adam Rogers, Donny McCaslin and others
The Luxury of Guessing - Sledgehammer Blues
Sledgehammer Blues
Sledgehammer Blues is an independent record label owned by Valley Entertainment that was formerly named AudioQuest Music.From the label’s website, “The blues label was founded in the late 1980s with the mission to create the highest standard audiophile recordings based on the technology available...
(formerly AudioQuest Music), 1995: Features Jeff Hirshfield, Scott Colley, Uri Caine, Ben Monder, Donny McCaslin
Point Game - Owl Records/Mesa-Bluemoon Records, 1989: Features Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Edward Simon, Lonnie Plaxico, Adam Rogers
Performance credits
Jim Hall QuartetUri Caine: Mahler Project
Uri Caine: Bach Project
Lost Tribe w/Adam Rogers, Ben Perowsky, Fima Ephron
Global Theory w/David Gilmore, Uri Caine, James Genus, Rodney Holmes
Marvin "Smitty" Smith Electric Band
Wayne Krantz Band
Joel Harrison: Free Country
Kenny Wollesen: "The Wollesens"
Steve Bernstein: Sex Mob w/John Medeski
Gil Evans Orchestra
Maria Schneider Orchestra
Lan Xang w/ Donny McCaslin, Kenny Wollesen, Scott Colley
Drew Gress: Jagged Sky w/Kenny Wollesen, Ben Monder
Bobby Previte: Horse
Edward Simon Group
Cecil Mcbee Band
Eumir Deodato Band
External links
- Dave Binney Bio: http://www.mythologyrecords.com/binney.html
- Dave Binney Homepage: http://www.davidbinney.com/
- Review of Out of Airplanes
- Review of Cities and Desire
- Review of Oceanos