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, as well as Halifax and currently 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 Venture School Of Music in Toronto.

He has performed at The Knitting Factory (NYC & Hollywood), 55 Bar, The Bottom Line, Minton’s Playhouse, The Bitter End, Fillmore NY@Irving Plaza, Tonic, Brooklyn Museum “First Saturdays”, The Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center “Out Of Doors” Festival, The Apollo Theater, Hammerstein Ballroom, Jazz Ministry at Saint Peter’s, Atlantic Jazz Festival-Canada, B.B. King Blues Club, Buddy Guy’s Legends, Khyber Institute of Contemporary Arts and The Halifax Experimental Music Festival.

His jazz ensemble, Short Memory, was formed 10 years ago and boasts alumni such as Brad Jones (Ornette Coleman, Dave Douglas, Elvin Jones), E.J. Rodriguez (Marc Ribot, Lounge Lizards), Greg Ritchie (Dave Liebman), as well as Dmitri Kolesnik, Rob Ritchie, Oswaldo Amorim Filho, Dawn Hatfield, Peter Johnston, Lukas Pearse, Dave Scherer, Benn E. Ross, Melissa Andrew, Brent Butterworth, Matt Wigton and Fernando Hernandez-Moros, as well as numerous others.

David has also worked on side projects with artists such as Kitty Brazelton, Bill Ware, Catherine Sikora, Don Palmer, Catherine Tyrrell, Dee Pop, Lynn Randolph Brown, Marie McAuliffe, Roy Nathanson and Sam Furnace.

Over the years, David has worked as a composer, arranger and performer with a variety of projects, including the theater-cabaret troupe Les Funky Bitches Fantastique, as well as ska group, Bigger Thomas, modern dancer/choreographer, Chris Ferris and Nigerian ensemble Zozo Afrobeat. He has also written and performed music for The Fringe Theatre Festival’s “Live From The Apocalypse”, The WorkShop Theater Company’s production of “Fault Lines”, as well as numerous independent short films. David was also recently featured as a soloist with the Centre Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Scott Jackson Wylie.

David Aaron’s most current projects include the latest version of Short Memory, which features Jon Frederick on bass, Spencer Katzman on guitar and Danny Borg on drums, as well as his newest ensemble, Flip City.