David Liebman

David Liebman is an American saxophonist, flautist, composer and educator, born in Brooklyn in 1946 and known above all for his soprano saxophone. He came up in New York's loft scene in the early 1970s, played with Elvin Jones and Miles Davis, and went on to lead his own groups and to teach widely. He founded the International Association of Schools of Jazz, which held its first meeting in 1989. Liebman helped run the musicians' cooperative Free Life Communication before joining Elvin Jones and then Miles Davis, with whom he recorded On the Corner and Get Up with It.