Mick Coady's Synergy featuring David Binney: Nine Tales of the Pendulum – review

Photograph: Emma Haugh

John Fordham

theguardian.com, Thursday 24 October 2013 23.14 BST

Irish bassist Mick Coady and turn-on-a-dime New York saxophonist David Binney just toured some of this music in the UK, and it was a real meeting of hearts and minds. Nine Tales of the Pendulum is full of testaments to Coady's broad world-music experience, and bop-sax empathy through his regular association with Peter King – in passages such as the two-sax theme statement of Autumn, the asymmetrical piano hook and stealthy sax theme of Naturally Liberating Molecules, or the contrapuntalism of Enemies of Order and unison chorus of Skimpy, in which Binney and Irish tenor saxist Michael Buckley border on a contemporary equivalent to the famously articulate pairing of Lee Konitz with Warne Marsh.
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