432 Hz Piano & Winds I
Matt Parker · Released August 28, 2026The first single in a new ambient series: piano and winds, tuned to 432 Hz, built for stillness. Music for reading, resting, working, and breathing. With it, the label steps into a quieter room and opens a new door: this is what BYNK sounds like when the lights go low.
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The Candy Shop BoysOn October 30, BYNK Records releases Sugarfoot Stomp by The Candy Shop Boys, a band that came up in New York's burlesque rooms and after-hours joints, playing for dancers at the tempos dancers demand.
About 38 minutes into John Wick, the film walks into the Continental Hotel lounge, and the band on the bandstand is this one: Jesse Elder, Matt Parker, Scott Tixier, Sophia Urista, Arthur Vint, and Kenball Zwerin.
The songbook runs from Jazz Age standards to a Prince tune. Piano struts, tenor saxophone and violin draw blood, the rhythm section hits like a rock band, and the voice out front stops the room. Dave Darlington remixed and remastered all twenty-one tracks for this release.
Underneath the oldest songs runs viper jazz: love, trouble, and gleeful misbehavior, coded to dodge the censors of the day. The band plays them like they are still banned. The nights are getting longer. This is the record to stay out too late with.
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Fire Tornado
Matt Parker & Richard X BennettComing soon from BYNK: Fire Tornado, a full duo album from Matt Parker and Richard X Bennett. Piano and saxophone, nothing between them. The two have been recording together since Parker Plays X, and this one burns exactly the way the title suggests. More soon.
The Reggie Watkins Tour
Reggie Watkins took his band on the road this season and every report came back the same: full rooms, new faces, and a book of music that keeps growing on stage. A few favorite moments below, and if you didn't make it to a show, here's a fun look at soundcheck, before anyone was there watching.
Reeds & Bass
Matt Parker & Matt DwonszykBack in July, Reeds & Bass, Matt Parker's duo with bassist Matt Dwonszyk, played The Three Arrows Cooperative Society in Putnam Valley, NY: a barn room, candle-lit tables, and seventy-five minutes that moved from long drones through originals and standards to a quiet close. Five winds, one upright bass, no net.
Two BYNK Classics Turn Ten
This year marks ten years for two albums at the heart of the BYNK catalog, both released in 2016.
Present Time is Matt Parker's trio album with Alan Hampton and Reggie Quinerly, with Emily Braden and Jerome Jennings as special guests. It carries the first ever recording of Charles Mingus' previously unrecorded "Song to Keki."
Avid Admirer: The Jimmy Knepper Project is Reggie Watkins' tribute to his mentor, recorded on Jimmy Knepper's own trombone. Ten years later it still sounds like a conversation across generations.
Both stream everywhere and live on Bandcamp, where every purchase funds the next release. If you missed either the first time, consider this your anniversary invitation.
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