David Binney: The Time Verses review – adventures in jazz empathy

(Criss Cross)The New York saxophonist and composer David Binney, an adventurer in contemporary music, has the technique and imagination to connect the saxophone intensity of John Coltrane or Ornette Coleman to the structural riddles of Tim Berne, Steve Coleman, and even contemporary classical methods. This set’s quartet, with pianist Jacob Sacks, bassist Eivind Opsvik and drummer Dan Weiss, is Binney’s most enduringly compatible partnership, and the proof is plain all over The Time V