David Leon: Bird's Eye - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Bird's Eye
Artist: David Leon
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 020286246978
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2024-03-08
Number of Discs: 1

DAVID LEON BIRD'S EYE Saxophonist/composer David Leon weaves influences from Afro-Cuban and Korean traditional music into innovative, stunning new jazz forms. David Leon David Leon is a Miami-born saxophonist, woodwinds player and composer living in Brooklyn, New York. Besides Bird's Eye, he also co-leads the double trio Locomotive with trumpeter Adam O'Farrill and has collaborated with artists including Tomas Fujiwara, Nick Dunston, Dafnis Prieto, Ingrid Laubrock, Russell Hall, Cory Smythe, Weston Olencki, and others. He is a core member of Lisa Hoppe's Third Reality, Lesley Mok: The Living Collection, Adam O'Farrill's For These Streets & Bird Blown Out of Latitude, William Brittelle MetaSimulacrum, Vicente Hansen's Orlando Furioso and others. His debut album, Aire de Agua, has been praised as "a splendid debut from a young saxophone player who... promises to make a name for himself in the creative jazz scene" (JazzTrail). He is a 2024 Jerome Commission artist at Roulette Intermedium.

Tracks:
1.1 You won’t find it by yourself
1.2 Ay-ya
1.3 Nothing Urgent, Just Unfortunate (featuring Doyeon Kim ; Lesley Mok)
1.4 to speak in flowers
1.5 A Night For Counting Stars
1.6 Secret Footshake
1.7 Expressive Jargon I ; III
1.8 Infatuation Station
1.9 Secret Handshake
1.10 Palmetto