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David Binney | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | August 2, 1961 Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Saxophone |
| Years active | 1990–present |
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| Website | davidbinney |
David Binney (born August 2, 1961) [1] is an American alto saxophonist and composer. [2]
Binney was born in Miami, Florida, and was raised in Carpinteria, California. From his parents, who loved music, he was exposed to albums by John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, and Jimi Hendrix. He took saxophone lessons in Los Angeles.
When he was nineteen, he moved to New York City and studied with saxophonists George Coleman, Dave Liebman, and Phil Woods. A grant from the National Endowment for the Arts helped him record his first album, Point Game. In the 1990s, he started his own label, Mythology Records. [3]
He has been part of several bands, including Lost Tribe, Jagged Sky, Lan Xang, the Gil Evans Orchestra, the Maria Schneider Orchestra, and Medeski Martin & Wood. He has also worked with Adam Rogers, Alex Sipiagin, Ben Monder, Ben Perowsky, Bill Frisell, Bobby Previte, Brian Blade, Cecil McBee, Craig Taborn, David Gilmore, Donny McCaslin, Edward Simon, Eivind Opsvik, Genevieve Artadi, Jacob Sacks, James Genus, Jim Black, Jim Hall, Kenny Wollesen, Knower, Leni Stern, Lonnie Plaxico, Mark Turner, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Nate Wood, Scott Colley, Steven Bernstein, Thomas Morgan, Tim Lefebvre, Wayne Krantz, and Louis Cole. [3]
With Lan Xang
With Lost Tribe
With Uri Caine
With Scott Colley
With John Escreet
With Joel Harrison
With Donny McCaslin
With Miles Okazaki
With Samo Salamon
With Edward Simon
With Alex Sipiagin
With others
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