David Binney

Dave Binney with bassist Scott Colley (2008)

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

Live and act

Binney grew up in Southern California, in Ventura near Santa Barbara . He had his first 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 recorded his first album Point Game in 1989 with Marvin Smitty Smith , Edward Simon , Adam Rogers and Lonnie Plaxico . He then worked as an accompanist for Aretha Franklin and Maceo Parker, as well as briefly with the M-Base initiative. Binney was a founding member of the bands Lost Tribe and Lan Xang ; he also worked u. a. with Uri Caines Mahler 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 number of record releases under his own name on the labels ACT , Criss Cross , Red , Posi-Tone and his own label Mythology. At the invitation of guitarist Pedro Martins , he played at the SWR New Jazz Meeting in 2017 .

Point Game (Audioquest, 1989)
Luxury of Guessing (Audioquest, 1995) with Jeff Hirshfield , Scott Colley , Uri Caine , Ben Monder , Donny McCaslin
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