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Quinsin Nachoff

NYC-based composer and saxophonist Quinsin Nachoff has earned a reputation for making “pure, bracing, thought-provoking music” that is “cliché-and convention-free” (Ottawa Citizen). Since moving from his native Toronto to New York City, Nachoff has made a habit of freely crossing borders: his music moves fluidly between the jazz and classical worlds and manages to be soul-stirring at the same time that it is intricately cerebral. His passions reach into both the arts and the sciences, with concepts from physics or astronomy sparking inspiration for exhilarating compositions. That state of constant unpredictability is vividly captured in both the name and the music of Nachoff’s remarkable group Flux, which thrives in the spaces between genres, styles and inspirations

Quinsin Nachoff's Ethereal Trio

By QUINSIN NACHOFF

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2017
Track listing: Clairvoyant Jest; Imagination Reconstruction; Gravitas; Subliminal Circularity; Push-Pull Topology; Portrait in Sepia Tones.

Quinsin Nachoff: Quinsin Nachoff's Ethereal Trio

By MARK CORROTO

It's interesting how modern jazz performers come to the music from very different circumstances than those of players of bygone eras. Instead of learning their craft in a bar or bagnio, they went to a conservatory to sharpen their chops. What they lack in perceived street-smarts (the outdated 1950s hipster delusion of jazzman as junkie), they ...

Clairvoyant Jest

Album: Quinsin Nachoff's Ethereal Trio
By QUINSIN NACHOFF
Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2017
Duration: 5:54

Quinsin Nachoff's Ethereal Trio: Quinsin Nachoff's Ethereal Trio

By ROGER FARBEY

Unlike Canada-raised/New York-based reedman Quinsin Nachoff's previous recordings--Flux, Magic Numbers, Horizons Ensemble, FoMo and 5 New Dreams--this is a trio album. “Clairvoyant Jest" benefits from a buoyant head which initially propels the number, as Nachoff's improvisatory talent manifests in his soloing, a marriage of Albert Ayler's meanderings with Sonny Rollins' fluid articulacy. “Imagination Reconstruction" ...