Devin Daniels & Henry Solomon - VS.

VS. - Devin Daniels & Henry Solomon
Released: May 8th, 2026

Set 1
Open Air
Earthenware
Kit-Kat Direction
Hangzhou Flower Garden
Sirocco

Set 2
The Horn in Question
God Always Keeps His Stubble
To Code a Mockingbird
Cross-Court
West Coast Routing
Total 90
Body & Soul

Performed live on June 20th 2025 at St. Barnabas Church in Eagle Rock, California. VS. is available everywhere you can stream music. Pre-orders are up online for 2LP vinyl. Limited edition cassettes can be purchased in person at any Minaret show.

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Alto saxophonist Devin Daniels and baritone saxophonist Henry Solomon performed as a duo throughout the first half of LA's eventful 2025. VS., recorded over two sets in the half-timbered Harmony Room at Eagle Rock's St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, captures their third date, on the summer solstice. It's an urgent improvisation, at various moments pointillistic, atmospheric, and psychedelic. Both players use electronics to accentuate, accent, and extend their instruments without losing their voices or focus.  Daniels drives with rapid, interrogative lines; Solomon anchors with grounded tones and harmonic support. Together they volley ideas and ring alarms. At just under 70 minutes, VS. contributes to the deep canon of experimental saxophone recordings with an expansive document of two jazz musicians listening closely and pushing each other somewhere new.

CREDITS:

Alto Saxophone: Devin Daniels
Baritone Saxophone: Henry Solomon
Recorded by Jakob Adler
Mixed & Mastered by David Darlington
Artwork: Trevor Shin
Photography: Erica Gould
Liner Notes: Tosten Burks
Executive Produced by Yousef Hilmy  

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MINARET RECORDS 2026