" data-original-title="" title="">Herb Pomeroy at the famed Berklee College of Music. While there, in 1980, David founded a large jazz ensemble just a few members short of a full big band called the "Eleventet." It melded the improvisational qualities of a small ensemble with the rich sound and interactional possibilities of a big band. He found it a wonderful vehicle for his compositional and music directing instincts, and some of the best working musicians loved the band and performed in it on a regular basis in Boston, Colby College in Maine, and elsewhere.

Eventually, David relocated to Philadelphia to take a teaching position in the Jazz Department of the Boyer College of Music at Temple University. The band continued to thrive in this city, has a performing home in the Plays and Players Theater at 1714 Delancey Street near Rittenhouse Square, and has released about half a dozen superb albums, all featuring David's compositions and bearing his unique soprano saxophone soloing and sophisticated style of composing and arranging which allows the musicians to play charts and improvise at very high levels, each with his own imprint.

The band's most recent release is called Intention and is consistent with the other albums in the series. The songs are David originals. The song titles are clever, esoteric, and suggestive in stimulating ways. In this particular recording, the arrangements are reminiscent of