David Bindman (musician)

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David Bindman (* 1963 in New York City ) is an American jazz musician ( tenor saxophone , also flute , clarinet , composition ).

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David Bindman graduated from Wesleyan University in 1985 ; He then completed a master's degree in forest music at Wesleyan , which he completed in 1987. He has also received grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council , the Queens Council on the Arts , the Puffin Foundation, Meet the Composer, and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music Performing Ensembles . He played from the 1980s a. a. with Bill Lowe and Royal Hartigan in the formation Juba (album Look on the Rainbow , 1986), in the following years in the Afro Asian Music Ensemble of Fred Ho , in the Bill Lowe / Andy Jaffe Big Band, in 1996 in the big band of Anthony Braxton , with the Ehran Elisha Ensemble ( Shoresh 1994), Adam Lane 's Full Throttle Orchestra ( Ashcan Rantings , 2009) and the Kevin Norton Ensemble.

In his David Bindman Trio he worked with Joe Fonda and Kevin Norton ( Imaginings , CIMP , 1998); he was also co-leader of the Brooklyn Sax Quartet with Fred Ho . In 2012 he presented the album Sunset Park Polyphony in a sextet line-up (with Frank London , Reut Regev , Art Hirahara , Wes Brown , Royal Hartigan) . In 2015 he played in the Brooklyn Infinity Orchestra (with Stephanie Griffin , Thomas Heberer , Jen Baker , Michael Attias , Michael Bates and Andrew Drury ). In the field of jazz he was involved in forty recording sessions between 1980 and 2012.

Bindman has taught at schools in New York City, the Consortium for Worker Education , Bennington College , LaGuardia Community College, and The New School University . He lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn .

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Individual evidence

  1. Composition N. 162 For 9 Singers, 9 Instrumentalists And Orchestra - Trillium R, Shala Fears For The Poor , Koch Records, 1996
  2. Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 13, 2017)