David Lynch Brings ‘Truths Be Told’ to B&E Jazz in the Museum

Saxophonist and composer David Lynch will open the seventh season of Jazz at the Museum, the concert series hosted by the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation in Athens, with a performance of Truths Be Told on Friday, October 23. Joined by the Heritage Band, Lynch will present music from his latest solo album, drawing on decades of personal experience, history, and heritage.

Released in November 2025, Truths Be Told reflects Lynch’s personal journey through melodies rooted in his life and background. The performance explores the idea that some truths do not need to be spoken to be understood, just as music can communicate feelings and ideas before words give them a name.

David Lynch Heritage band, Aristeidis Chatzistavrou. Courtesy of B&E Goulandris Foundation

Through the album and its live interpretation, Lynch and the Heritage Band approach numbers and musical structures not as restrictions on creativity, but as foundations for freedom and improvisation. Rules, patterns, repetition, and variation can establish an underlying order while leaving room for the unexpected.

The concept connects directly with this season’s Numbers theme, which examines numbers not merely as mathematical symbols but also as aesthetic forms and organizing principles that shape rhythm, repetition, and artistic expression.

A career spanning jazz, theater, and international collaborations

Lynch is an established musician and composer whose work includes music for theater and dance productions, radio, and television. He has performed at major venues in Greece and abroad and collaborated with an extensive range of international and Greek artists.

His collaborators have included Trilok Gurtu, Davy Spillane, Anthony Jackson, Marshall Hawkins, Lew Soloff, Arturo Sandoval, Martin Tillman, Milcho Leviev, The Temptations, Barry White, and Joe Higgs. His Greek collaborations include Elli Paspala, Maria Farantouri, Eleni Karaindrou, Alkinoos Ioannidis, Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Savina Yannatou, Haroula Alexiou, and Vasilis Soukas.

For Truths Be Told, Lynch will perform on tenor and soprano saxophone, alto flute, piccolo, Irish tin whistle, voice, and percussion.

David Lynch Heritage band, Orestis Petrakis. Courtesy of B&E Goulandris Foundation

The Heritage Band features Aristeidis Chatzistavrou on acoustic, classical, and electric guitars, as well as ambience; Orestis Petrakis on piano and keyboards; Kostas Patsiotis on double bass, electric bass, and effects; and Hector Remsak on drums and percussion.

David Lynch Heritage band, Kostas Patsiotis. Courtesy of B&E Goulandris Foundation

David Lynch Heritage band, Ektor Remsak. Courtesy of B&E Goulandris Foundation

‘Numbers’

This year’s nine-concert cycle takes Numbers as its central theme, exploring how numerical relationships shape musical composition and improvisation, as well as visual forms. Across the series, numbers serve as a shared language through which artists and musicians can reveal unexpected connections between sound, rhythm, shape, and structure.

Each concert offers a distinct interpretation of the theme, bringing jazz into conversation with works from the foundation’s art collection and creating new relationships between music and visual art.

Lynch’s Truths Be Told will explore how structure can provide a framework for artistic freedom—and how music can express personal truths that words cannot always capture.