Details: 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.

David Leon - Bird's Eye (CD)