DAVID BINDMAN, saxophonist and composer, creates works that combine many elements: that draw on the motion of dance, that explore the complexity of melody and time unbound yet relating to tradition, and that have improvisation at the core. His compositions explore the process of merging "old and new" musical forms, rhythmic cycles and permutations influenced by the musics of West Africa and India, and autobiographical experiences of waking into an often unrecognizable world (the self-described "Rip Van Winkle effect"). Bindman's recent work can be heard on the recordings The Way of the Saxophone (innova) and Far Side of Here (Omnitone), and the forthcoming BloodDrumSpirit: Live in China (innova), among many others. His work has been described as "virtuosic" (Downbeat), "complex and visionary" (All Music Guide), and "truly a merging of wide sounds" (Cadence). [more]

photo by Robert Adam Mayer