Saxophonist and composer David Bindman creates works that combine many elements: that draw on the motion of dance, that explore the complexity of melody and time unbound, and that have improvisation at the core. Heard on the recordings The Way of the Saxophone and Far Side of Here by the Brooklyn Sax Quartet, and Blood Drum Spirit Live in China, among many others, his work has been described as "virtuosic" (Downbeat), "complex and visionary" (All Music Guide), and "truly a merging of wide sounds...tuneful to the last" (Cadence). David's new suites explore many aspects of time: the process of merging "old and new" musical forms, rhythmic cycles and permutations influenced by the musics of West Africa, India, and around the globe, and autobiographical experiences of waking into an often unrecognizable world -- the self-described "Rip Van Winkle effect". David seeks to create music that offers, in any way possible, artistic alternatives to the the profit-driven imperatives that imperil life, that deny justice, and that go against the human spirit and the natural world. [more]

photo by Steve Johnson