06 Mar

[ March 8th, 2024 release on Pyroclastic Records: David Leon – Bird’s Eye ]

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Bird’s Eye, due out March 8, 2024 via Pyroclastic Records, features a pathfinding new trio with gayageum player DoYeon Kim and drummer/percussionist Lesley Mok.

“[David Leon’s] extroversion feels like a natural part of his musical personality, spiking his agile post-bop with nifty conceptual brio that never gets in the way of his desire to communicate.” – Peter Margasak, The Quietus

“[Bird’s Eye] maintained an easy and fluid connection… [Mok] effortlessly augmented Leon’s… solos and punctuated the texture without overpowering DoYeon Kim, who shredded so hard on the gayagum that she had to actually reassemble her instrument before the set was over.” – Lana Norris, I Care If You Listen

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02 Dec

[ December the 2nd,2022 release on Pyroclastic Records: Cory Smythe’s ‘Smoke Gets In Your Eyes ]

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release date: 02.12.2022 via Pyroclastic Records

Grammy winning pianist and composerCory Smythe explores the climate crisis through an abstracted American songbook classic on his new album Smoke Gets In Your Eyes,

The album features vocalist Sofia Jernberg, violinist Joshua Modney, cellist Tomeka Reid, trumpeter Peter Evans, trombonist Zekkereya El-magharbel, saxophonists Ryan Muncy, Ingrid Laubrock, and David Leon, drummer/percussionist Jessie Cox, bassist Stephan Crump, and Smythe on piano.

“The sonic language that Cory Smythe has brought to his own recordings as leader, and to his work as a collaborator and sideman, blurs any lines… Expansive sound, cutting-edge vision.” – Brad Cohan, JazzTimes

“For over a decade, Mr. Smythe has been one of the busiest players on the new-music and avant-jazz scenes… But even when the music is the headiest modernism, his performances retain a sense of playfulness.”  – Seth Colter Walls, The New York Times

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