David Binney: Barefooted Town

Continuing Saga of the Strong Seeker I remember distinctly during the 2007 Montreal Jazz Festival, sifting through and measuring up the usual blur of stimuli, seeking out the prizes among prizes in the program. In one corner, there was Wayne Shorter, in the finest of his performance I’d ever heard–playing up his suits as composer and soloist by meshing his free-wheeling quartet and the score-heeding Imani Winds… [ read more ]