Personnel: David Binney (as), Mark Turner (ts), Craig Taborn (p), Thomas Morgan (b) & Dan Weiss (d).
Recorded in studio in Brooklyn, New York, March 18, 2005.
With "Cities and Desire", his second Criss Cross release, alto saxophonist-composer David Binney presents an intense, well-knit suite of compositions informed by the sounds and signals he's absorbed while traveling through such cities as Lisbon, London, Toronto, Rome, Montreal, Miami, as well as his hometown (Los Angeles), his present home (New York), and his birthplace (the beach community of Carpenteria).