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david aaron

Discography

1995 Obvious Sexism & The Unfortunate Media
1998 Short Memory
2000 No Recollection
2001 dismiss television
2003 Diagonal Angel Cut
2005 Cynical Rat Bastard
2007 Executive Food Fight

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David Aaron

Saxophonist and composer David Aaron has spent most of his life bouncing between his hometown of Toronto, Halifax and New York City. Over the years, he has studied privately with Roy Nathanson, Charles Davis, Bob Mover, as well as at the Jazzmobile in Harlem, the SOJ Workshop at The Collective in NYC, and also The Venture School Of Music in Toronto.

He has performed at The Knitting Factory (NYC & Hollywood), The 55 Bar, The Bottom Line, The Bitter End, Fillmore NY@Irving Plaza, Tonic, Brooklyn Museum “First Saturdays”, The Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center “Out Of Doors” Festival and has even been booed off the stage of The Apollo Theater.

His jazz ensemble, Short Memory, was formed 10 years ago and has included Brad Jones, E.J. Rodriguez, Greg Ritchie, Dmitri Kolesnik, Kitty Brazelton, Bill Ware, Sam Furnace, Rob Ritchie, Marie McAuliffe, Matt Wigton, Fernando Hernandez-Moros, Roy Nathanson and Don Palmer, among countless others.

He is currently working on his seventh recording, entitled “Nobbylocks”, featuring Dave Scherer (drums &percussion), Jon Frederick (bass) and Spencer Katzman (guitar). David regularly performs with the Nigerian afrobeat collective, Zozo Afrobeat, featuring Kaleta, as well as reggae/ska group, Bigger Thomas, and most recently as a featured soloist with the Centre Symphony Orchestra. He also regularly works as a composer, arranger and performer for a variety of film, theater, modern dance and cabaret projects.