RECORDED APRIL 2017 @ DOUGLASS RECORDING IN BROOKLYN NY, USA / ENGINEERED BY PETER KARL / MIXED AND MASTERED BY HENRY STRONGBOX / ARTWORK BY HERVE THIOT / MUSIC BY BINNEY - ENGEL  

DAVID BINNEY   MANUEL ENGEL

David Binney - alto sax and  fx
Manuel Engel - prepared grand piano

David Binney – saxophonist, composer, producer 
David Binney was born in Miami, Florida and raised in Southern California and has lived in NYC for 35 years. Acclaimed as a considerable and highly individual compositional talent, saxophonist David Binney is one of the most prolific jazz musicians on the scene today. Binney has won the Downbeat Critics Poll 3 different times in the alto saxophone category and placed in producer, album as well as in the Jazz Times polls and polls worldwide. 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. 

Manuel Engel – pianist, composer, producer 
Manuel Engel was born in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland and has attended the Swiss Jazz School, Hochschule der Künste Bern and the New School University in NYC. He has worked as a freelance musician in NYC in 2000 - 2009. Engel has won a Billboard Songwriting Award, Chrysler Jazz Award, IndieSuisse Album of the Year Award (Puts Marie, featured on Masoch). He has collaborated with  Karsh Kale, Chico Freeman, Doug Weiss, Pepe Lienhard, Hans Koch, Richie Beirach, William Parker, Hamid Drake, Ainsley Burrows and others.



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