Jazz Articles about Quinsin Nachoff

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Quinsin Nachoff: Flux

by Dan McClenaghan
August 18, 2016

Saxophonist Quinsin Nachoff sounds right at home on Mythology Records--saxophonist/producer/provocateur David Binney's label. Everything on Mythology has a intensity and modernity, a brashness and in-your-face confidence of delivery, whether it's Binney as the leader, or on sets headed up by pianists John Escreet or Edward Simon, or Quinsin Nachoff. Flux is Nachoff's debut on the label, a two saxophone front line with piano and drums, and no bass in the mix, in the mode of Vijay Iyer's Fieldwork ...

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Quinsin Nachoff - Bruno Tocanne Project: 5 New Dreams

by Glenn Astarita
February 16, 2009

Had this CD been received in 2008, it would surely have made my personal top-ten list. Canadian reed man Quinsin Nachoff aligns with French modern jazz artists, including the co-leader and drummer Bruno Tocanne. Sans a bassist, the four-man horns section generates an excitable string of musical notions, sparked with adventurous shifts in strategy. As Tocanne's resonating drum parts generate a heavy and vibrant bottom end.

Featuring beefy pulses, swaggering grooves and pause/restart type charts, the quintet delves ...

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Quinsin Nachoff: Horizons Ensemble

by Jerry D'Souza
December 10, 2008

Saxophonist and composer Quinsin Nachoff continues his journey into chamber and contemporary music in his quest to extrapolate musical forms, as he leans into classical music and tempers it with his sense of jazz harmony. The two streams, reflected in his compositions, entwine and flow majestically on his self-released Horizons Ensemble.  His players rise to meet the challenges. Neither John Taylor (piano) nor Ernst Reijseger (cello) are strangers to challenges. They bring in their own progressive sense of time and ...

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Quinsin Nachoff: Horizons Ensemble

by Troy Collins
November 7, 2008

Horizons Ensemble is the sublime follow-up to Quinsin Nachoff's stellar Songlines debut Magic Numbers (2006). The Canadian-born, New York-based saxophonist continues to explore neo-classical territory initiated by the Third Stream Movement with a series of extended compositions that skirt a tenuous line between the written and the composed.

Magic Numbers featured a trio with bassist Mark Helias and drummer Jim Black augmented by a traditional string quartet. Nachoff's Horizons Ensemble dispenses with percussion entirely, relying solely on a ...

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Quinsin Nachoff: Magic Numbers

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 2, 2007

Quinsin Nachoff è un giovane sassofonista canadese, che - oltre ad aver collaborato con il suo illustre compatriota Kenny Wheeler - ha sviluppato un certo interesse per la musica europea. Quella di John Taylor ed Ernst Reijseger, ad esempio, con i quali pubblicherà il suo prossimo album, ma anche quella più accademica, con il calore e la melodicità di Ravel e Debussy, e la forza dirompente del primo novecento (Stravinski, Bartok, Schoenberg, Shostakovich). La musica che ci propone in questo ...

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Quinsin Nachoff: Magic Numbers

by Jerry D'Souza
February 26, 2006

Quinsin Nachoff is an adventurer. He is not afraid of going into the unknown, making his way through the recesses and finding something new and interesting. His career has seen him in the company of musicians who are constantly looking out, far out, into the horizon for that speck they can enlarge into something meaningful. Among them are John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, Ernst Reijseger and at home, in Canada, Tim Postgate. Put him in this situation and he is an ...

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Quinsin Nachoff: Magic Numbers

by Troy Collins
February 12, 2006

On Magic Numbers, Canadian saxophonist Quinsin Nachoff debuts an ensemble that delivers on the promise originally offered by the Third Stream. Combining a free-wheeling, improvisational saxophone trio and a rigidly regimented but highly creative neo-classical string quartet, Nachoff has found an equitable way to integrate the best elements of both worlds.

Nachoff's compositions are lush but labyrinthine. Interwoven string parts commingle with a rhythm section of astonishing dexterity for a dynamic session that veers from hushed whispers to ...