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Quinsin Nachoff: Magic Numbers

by John Kelman
January 13, 2006

These days, marrying improvisational collectives with units more typically associated with classical music--from intimate string quartets to full-blown orchestras--is neither a revolutionary concept nor suggestive of the syrupy “jazz with strings association it once had. Recent releases--eg. pianist Billy Childs' Grammy-nominated Lyric: Jazz-Chamber Music Vol. 1 (Lunacy Music, 2005) and pianist Steve Kuhn's Promises Kept (ECM, 2004)--have proven that it's no longer simply a matter of bringing together disparate musical aesthetics, but instead broadening one's musical definitions to allow the ...