David Binney

Born in Miami and settled in New York at the age of 19, David Binney since the early 1990s has developed a career centered on contemporary jazz, between rigorous writing, open improvisation and a pronounced attention to rhythmic textures. An alto saxophonist and composer, he studied notably with George Coleman, Dave Liebman and Phil Woods before recording Point Game in 1990, then launching his Mythology Records label, which accompanies a large part of his discography. Binney evolves at the crossroads of post-bop, avant-garde jazz and more electric aesthetics, with an incisive playing style and compositions often structured by mobile harmonies and changing meters. Over the years, he leads his own groups while participating in formations such as Lost Tribe, Lan Xang, the Gil Evans Orchestra or the Maria Schneider Orchestra, and collaborates with musicians such as Edward Simon, Donny McCaslin, Craig Taborn, Brian Blade, Jim Black or Adam Rogers. Among his notable albums are Free to Dream (1998), South (2001), Cities and Desire (2006), Graylen Epicenter (2011), The Time Verses (2017), Aerial (2020), Where Infinity Begins (2022) and In the Arms of Light (2024). David Binney thus sits in a New York scene where jazz constantly dialogues with freer and more hybrid contemporary forms.