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Quinsin Nachoff: Magic Numbers
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 album è dunque un mix di tutte queste influenze. Una musica che ama la bella melodia ma anche le dissonanze dai sapori forti, mentre il sostegno ritmico, sempre molto deciso, è garantito da due autentici fuoriclasse come Mark Helias e Jim Black.

Molto interessante anche l'uso del quartetto d'archi, asciutto ed assai poco indulgente. Poco in linea con la tradizione del jazz (ammesso che ce ne sia una per gli archi!) ed invece molto aderente alla lezione di Shostakovich.

Un album di difficile catalogazione, che colpisce per la sua forza e complessità.

Track Listing

There & Back; To Solar Piazza; How Postmodern of Me; October; Branches; Circles & Waves; Whorls; Sun-Day.

Personnel

Quinsin Nachoff
saxophone

Quinsin Nachoff: tenor and soprano saxophones; Mark Helias: bass; Jim Black: drums; Nathalie Bonin: violin; No

Album information

Title: Magic Numbers | Year Released: 2006 | Record Label: Songlines Recordings

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