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The Time Verses

David Binney

The Time Verses

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Format: CD
Label: Criss Cross
UPC: 8712474139224
Catnr: CRISS 1392
Release date: 10 February 2017
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Label
Criss Cross
UPC
8712474139224
Catalogue number
CRISS 1392
Release date
10 February 2017

"A fascinating and extremely clever album of one of the great ones of contemporary jazz!"

Rootstime, 01-4-2017
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About the album

For his eighth date for Criss Cross as a leader or co-leader, alto saxophonist-composer David Binney documents the quartet with which he most frequently works in New York City (pianist Jacob Sacks, bassist Eivind Opsvik, and drummer Dan Weiss) for the first time since the 2009 recording Aliso.

It's an episodic, thematically cohesive, 65-minute suite on which Binney and his upper-echelon bandmates solo through the shifting moods and evironments -tracking his responses to the diurnal cycle -- with characteristic inspiration and derring-do.


Artist(s)

David Binney (saxophone)

Acclaimed as a considerable and highly individual compositional talent, saxophonist David Binney is one of the most prolific jazz musicians on the scene today.Winning praise from critics and colleagues alike, David was  singled out by Jazz Times as one of a handful of “players who have created an alternative jazz scene… all of whom are playing adventurous, original music.” David’s distinctive saxophone sound and innovative compositions have been heard from basement clubs in New York to jazz festivals in Europe and the world. In addition to his extensive work as a leader, he has been sought after as a sideman, appearing on record with Medeski, Martin & Wood , Uri Caine’s Mahler Project and hundreds of others. David has also appeared...
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Acclaimed as a considerable and highly individual compositional talent, saxophonist David Binney is one of the most prolific jazz musicians on the scene today.Winning praise from critics and colleagues alike, David was singled out by Jazz Times as one of a handful of “players who have created an alternative jazz scene… all of whom are playing adventurous, original music.”

David’s distinctive saxophone sound and innovative compositions have been heard from basement clubs in New York to jazz festivals in Europe and the world. In addition to his extensive work as a leader, he has been sought after as a sideman, appearing on record with Medeski, Martin & Wood , Uri Caine’s Mahler Project and hundreds of others. David has also appeared on stage with Aretha Franklin, at Carnegie Hall, and with Maceo Parker, to name a few. He has produced all of his own 22 albums, and many others including two of the Lost Tribe releases,Scott Colley’s “The Architect of the Silent Moment”,8 Donny McCaslin releases including the highly acclaimed Casting For Gravity,Fast Future and Beyond Now.

He also put together and produces the band that became the band on David Bowie’s Blackstar

David started his record label, Mythology Records, in 1998.

He has won the Downbeat Critics Poll 3 different times in the Alto Saxophone category. And placed in Producer, Album etc.. As well as in the Jazz Times polls and polls worldwide.


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Dan Weiss (drums)

Dan Weiss began playing the drums at the age of six. He received his bachelor’s degree at Manhattan School of Music with a major in jazz percussion and minor in classical composition. Soon after getting his formal education, he began touring the world and recording with musicians such as David Binney, Lee Konitz, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Miguel Zenon, Kenny Werner and many others.  In addition to the drums, Weiss has been studying the tabla under his guru Pandit Samir Chatterjee for almost 20 years. This apprenticeship has been a major influence in his musical aesthetic, exemplified in two of his records where he performs classical Indian repertoire on drum set. David Adler All About Jazz ) wrote, “Weiss is arguably unique among...
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Dan Weiss began playing the drums at the age of six. He received his bachelor’s degree at Manhattan School of Music with a major in jazz percussion and minor in classical composition. Soon after getting his formal education, he began touring the world and recording with musicians such as David Binney, Lee Konitz, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Miguel Zenon, Kenny Werner and many others.

In addition to the drums, Weiss has been studying the tabla under his guru Pandit Samir Chatterjee for almost 20 years. This apprenticeship has been a major influence in his musical aesthetic, exemplified in two of his records where he performs classical Indian repertoire on drum set. David Adler All About Jazz ) wrote, “Weiss is arguably unique among today’s jazz drummers, transposing ideas from his tabla study to the drum kit, as heard most clearly on Tintal Drum Set Solo (Chhandayan , 2005) and Jhaptal Drum Set Solo.” Weiss was also named “The Top Up and Coming Percussionist” two years in a row in the 60th and 61st annual Downbeat’s Critic’s Poll and was featured in the New York Times as “One of the Five Most Promising Drummers of the New Generation.”

Weiss has led his trio, which includes Jacob Sacks on piano and Thomas Morgan on bass, for over a decade. Their two releases “Now Yes When” and “Timshel” have been critically acclaimed for their unique approach to song structure and endlessly creative improvisation. Weiss’s most ambitious work to date is “Fourteen,” a 14 piece ensemble composition that features a rhythm section, horns, voices, harp, percussion and organ.


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Jen Shyu (vocals)

Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses, the new work by sui generis vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Jen Shyu, is a collection of songs devoted to the marginalized voices of women around the world, and a profound elegy to personal loss. The album is dedicated to her father, who passed away in 2019. It was Shyu's discovery of her old diaries while cleaning out his closet that transformed Zero Grasses into a coming-of-age story about her ambitions and personal reflections on the racism and sexism that she has faced throughout her life. The past year has also made her reflect on the ongoing racism in our society – she dedicates a song to the memory of Breonna Taylor – and life in the time of COVID. On...
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Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses, the new work by sui generis vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Jen Shyu, is a collection of songs devoted to the marginalized voices of women around the world, and a profound elegy to personal loss. The album is dedicated to her father, who passed away in 2019. It was Shyu's discovery of her old diaries while cleaning out his closet that transformed Zero Grasses into a coming-of-age story about her ambitions and personal reflections on the racism and sexism that she has faced throughout her life. The past year has also made her reflect on the ongoing racism in our society – she dedicates a song to the memory of Breonna Taylor – and life in the time of COVID. On "Living's a Gift," Shyu sings all the vocal parts to her first composition for choir, set to heartbreakingly wise words of middle schoolers affected by the pandemic.
The music on Zero Grasses spans the full range from ancient to modern, referencing traditional Javanese music, Japanese "katari" (or speaking the song) that is sung with the biwa, East Timorese chant from Ataúro island, all derived from her 15-plus years of immersive fieldwork on languages and traditional musics of her own ancestry and other cultures. Her work is unique in its combination of languages and musical forms from these traditions, contemporary composition, jazz, improvised music, and dream-like narrative. It's an innovative architecture of sound that could never be heard anywhere else. The album is also the long-awaited return of Jade Tongue, an ensemble made up of musical innovators with whom Shyu has created music with for over a decade. They last appeared on her groundbreaking and highly acclaimed 2015 Pi release Sounds and Cries of the World, which NPR called: "no drive-by encounter between musical cultures, no cherry picking of exotic licks. This is research and experience, absorbed and reimagined."
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Jacob Sacks (piano)

Shai Golan (saxophone)

Composer(s)

David Binney

Acclaimed as a considerable and highly individual compositional talent, saxophonist David Binney is one of the most prolific jazz musicians on the scene today.Winning praise from critics and colleagues alike, David was  singled out by Jazz Times as one of a handful of “players who have created an alternative jazz scene… all of whom are playing adventurous, original music.” David’s distinctive saxophone sound and innovative compositions have been heard from basement clubs in New York to jazz festivals in Europe and the world. In addition to his extensive work as a leader, he has been sought after as a sideman, appearing on record with Medeski, Martin & Wood , Uri Caine’s Mahler Project and hundreds of others. David has also appeared...
more

Acclaimed as a considerable and highly individual compositional talent, saxophonist David Binney is one of the most prolific jazz musicians on the scene today.Winning praise from critics and colleagues alike, David was singled out by Jazz Times as one of a handful of “players who have created an alternative jazz scene… all of whom are playing adventurous, original music.”

David’s distinctive saxophone sound and innovative compositions have been heard from basement clubs in New York to jazz festivals in Europe and the world. In addition to his extensive work as a leader, he has been sought after as a sideman, appearing on record with Medeski, Martin & Wood , Uri Caine’s Mahler Project and hundreds of others. David has also appeared on stage with Aretha Franklin, at Carnegie Hall, and with Maceo Parker, to name a few. He has produced all of his own 22 albums, and many others including two of the Lost Tribe releases,Scott Colley’s “The Architect of the Silent Moment”,8 Donny McCaslin releases including the highly acclaimed Casting For Gravity,Fast Future and Beyond Now.

He also put together and produces the band that became the band on David Bowie’s Blackstar

David started his record label, Mythology Records, in 1998.

He has won the Downbeat Critics Poll 3 different times in the Alto Saxophone category. And placed in Producer, Album etc.. As well as in the Jazz Times polls and polls worldwide.


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Press

A fascinating and extremely clever album of one of the great ones of contemporary jazz!
Rootstime, 01-4-2017

(...) The complexity of the music sounds nice and fluent (...)
Jazzflits, 09-3-2017

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01.
Dawn
00:26
(David Binney) David Binney, Eivind Opsvik, Dan Weiss, Jen Shyu, Jacob Sacks, Shai Golan
02.
Walk
10:55
(David Binney) David Binney, Eivind Opsvik, Dan Weiss, Jen Shyu, Jacob Sacks, Shai Golan
03.
Arc
05:10
(David Binney) David Binney, Eivind Opsvik, Dan Weiss, Jen Shyu, Jacob Sacks, Shai Golan
04.
Morning Tide
00:24
(David Binney) David Binney, Eivind Opsvik, Dan Weiss, Jen Shyu, Jacob Sacks, Shai Golan
05.
Strange Animal
08:55
(David Binney) David Binney, Eivind Opsvik, Dan Weiss, Jen Shyu, Jacob Sacks, Shai Golan
06.
Seen
07:25
(David Binney) David Binney, Eivind Opsvik, Dan Weiss, Jen Shyu, Jacob Sacks, Shai Golan
07.
Noon Tide
00:25
(David Binney) David Binney, Eivind Opsvik, Dan Weiss, Jen Shyu, Jacob Sacks, Shai Golan
08.
The Reason To Return
06:08
(David Binney) David Binney, Eivind Opsvik, Dan Weiss, Jen Shyu, Jacob Sacks, Shai Golan
09.
Time Takes It's Return
06:12
(David Binney) David Binney, Eivind Opsvik, Dan Weiss, Jen Shyu, Jacob Sacks, Shai Golan
10.
Evening Tide
00:18
(David Binney) David Binney, Eivind Opsvik, Dan Weiss, Jen Shyu, Jacob Sacks, Shai Golan
11.
Where Worlds Collide
11:24
(David Binney) David Binney, Eivind Opsvik, Dan Weiss, Jen Shyu, Jacob Sacks, Shai Golan
12.
Fifty Five
06:15
(David Binney) David Binney, Eivind Opsvik, Dan Weiss, Jen Shyu, Jacob Sacks, Shai Golan
13.
Arc Reprise
01:14
(David Binney) David Binney, Eivind Opsvik, Dan Weiss, Jen Shyu, Jacob Sacks, Shai Golan
14.
Dusk
00:27
(David Binney) David Binney, Eivind Opsvik, Dan Weiss, Jen Shyu, Jacob Sacks, Shai Golan
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