David Binney

David "Dave" Binney ( born August 2, 1961 in Miami, Florida ) is an American jazz alto saxophonist, and composer.

Binney grew up in Southern California, in Ventura near Santa Barbara on. First he had lessons with Don Raffel in Sherman Oaks. In 1980 he went to New York City where he studied with Phil Woods, Dave Liebman and George Coleman. Equipped with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, he took in 1989 with Marvin Smitty Smith, Edward Simon, Adam Rogers and Lonnie Plaxico on his first album Point Game. He then worked as a sideman for Aretha Franklin and Maceo Parker and briefly with the M-Base Initiative. Binney was a founding member of the band Lost Tribe and Lan Xang; He also worked with Uri Caine's Mahler et al in project and Drew Gress ' Jagged Sky and worked with Chris Potter, Donny McCaslin, Maria Schneider, Gil Evans and the trio Medeski, Martin & Wood. This was followed by a series of record releases under his own name on the label ACT, Criss Cross, Red and his own label, Mythology.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Point Game ( AudioQuest, 1989)
  • Free to dream ( Mythology, 1998) with Jeff Hirshfield, Edward Simon, Kenny Wollesen, Scott Colley, Adam Rogers, Donny McCaslin
  • South (ACT, 2001) with Chris Potter, Uri Caine, Brian Blade, Scott Colley, Adam Rogers, Jim Black
  • Balance ( ACT, 2002) with Wayne Krantz, Uri Caine, Tim Lefebvre, Fima Ephron, Donny McCaslin, Jim Black
  • Bastion of Sanity ( Criss Cross, 2005) with Chris Potter
Ventura, California Santa Barbara, California Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles Edward Simon (musician) Adam Rogers (musician) Chris Potter (jazz saxophonist) Maria Schneider (musician) Criss Cross Jazz Red Records Ben Monder Discogs Name Authority File
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