Not one to swim in waters others have swum, David is a Grammy-nominated and acclaimed jazz guitarist and composer. 

What defines his music is a defiance of labels. 

 

To wit: although schooled in bebop for many years with Charlie Shoemake in Los Angeles, he was exploring odd meters and long form composition in the 1990s long before that was fashionable (check out his albums All Stories Are True and Object Relations). 

 

His Grammy-nominated band, Big Neighborhood, combined eclectic guitar-synth contrapuntalism with edgy improvisations. 

 

His current trio project, beautifully captured in his latest release, While You Were Sleeping, is a unique hybrid of bebop, Latin, free, and harmony-rich 21st century jazz rendered in an electric modern vein.

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David has worked with George Garzone, Valery Ponomarev, Jeff Ballard, John Lockwood, Tim Armacost, Stomu Takeishi, Calvin Hill, Victor Jones, Mark Walker, among many others. 

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He has recorded 8 CDs as a leader and toured extensively throughout North America. His orientation is synthesis, in the truest sense of the term, weaving influences as diverse as Frank Zappa, Paul Hindemith, Led Zeppelin and McCoy Tyner into a cohesive 21st century concept. This might make it harder for algorithms and marketers but rewarding for those seeking out fresh, adventurous, inspired, and non-derivative jazz.

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David was raised in Chile, New York City and Spain, has played extensively in New York, Boston and Seattle, and makes his home in Oakland, California.

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