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Not many musicians could assemble a pool of talent that includes Wayne Shorter's drummer, Jim Hall's bassist and New York's currently hippest pianist, but such is the regard in which the world's leading players hold saxophonist and composer Dave Binney.
Artists the calibre of Brian Blade(drums), Craig Taborn (piano) and Scott Colley (bass), each pillars of creativity in their own right, supplement Binney's brilliant and wholly original music.
Here is a musician who embodies the dictum of 'jazz as the sound of surprise', with a unique compositional signature that romps freely across all manner of genres, from asymmetric funk and power chords to free improv and moody electronica.
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Unburdened by jazz history, yet clearly steeped in it, Binney conjures up multifaceted music poised between eclecticism and purity, access and intrigue, and always tempered by a genuine lyricism.
"A strikingly original composer, bandleader and conceptualist." DOWNBEAT
"A performance of extraordinary flexibility and invention." THE IRISH TIMES
www.davidbinney.com
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