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 aka Henry Strongbox 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, Richie Beirach, William Parker, Hamid Drake, Ainsley Burrows and others.

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

ZINC CITY  - INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS NOMINEE!  

​JKM TRIO

Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson - compositions / trumpet / vocals
Manuel Engel - nord lead / wurlizer
Kevin Chesham - drums / percussion

Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, he studied Composition with John Eaton and Iannis Xenakis, and with Gunther Schuller at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood. In 1974, he was awarded the first John W. Work III Composition Fellowship. In 1974, Nelson moved to New York. From 1974 to 1994, he worked in the field of Creative Music Education. Among the organizations he worked with the Lincoln Center Institute, the Henry Street Settlement, the Guggenheim Museum's Learning Through The Arts Program, Adelphi University, Saint Ann's School, Brooklyn and the "Meet The Composer" Composer in the Schools Program. He has presented music workshops in Holland, Belgium, Hungary, Estonia, France, Greece, Denmark and Switzerland.

Recorded, mixed and mastered at Machina Studios Biel/Bienne, Switzerland

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​HENRY STRONGBOX​

​Henry Strongbox loves to build boxes which bleep, screw, scream, scratch and twirl. These self-made boxes can also reproduce fat beats, deep dub basses and energetic melodies. Henry Strongbox is collecting vintage boxes as well such as the stylophone box from 1967 or a wooden wurlitzer from 1964. Henry Strongbox is on a mission to advance the perception of sound. Through his performances he is channeling excitement, love and dada – there ain´t no box without a paradox!

​His first release called HENRY STRONGBOX PRESENTS LEGO BOX 2019 (USB STICK for promotional use only) contains music and videos from the last 5 years produced in different recording studios (from New York City, US to Bienne City, CH). Including live performances such as Henry's Piano Box at Coupole Bienne City / Mullbau Mini Festival / Residency @ Espace Libre (Centre PasquArt) /  Tracy Love´s Lokal Pizza Radio Show.

More info: www.henrystrongbox.com 

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"DUALISM IS THE ELECTRICITY OF THE HUMAN SOUL, WHERE STAGGERING COMPLEXITY TRACES BACK TO TWIN POLES OF ENERGY IN PERPETUAL MOTION."
CYRUS BOZORGMEHR

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The JKM TRIO not only plays music for the enjoyment of the public. They  also believe that music can be used in a social and spiritual context as well. Reacting to events in the world is expressed for example in one of their works called "Don`t Be  A victim". This song expresses the idea that every person, no matter who they are or where they are must have the power to determine their own lives and their own futures. And the spiritual side of their music is expressed in the work on their new CD "Rumi Spins". Their  philosophy is to cross the artificial musical boundaries.

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Recorded at Atelier1 Biel/Bienne, Switzerland