{"product_id":"sglsa15562-magic-numbers","title":"Magic Numbers","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\"I suggest starting with 'October' and 'Sun-Day.' It's here you'll find the best of Nachoff's esthetic: greys, beiges, btowns, deep, earth-bound colors that set off his exquisite, forlorn tenor. If he sometimes overwrites, he also creates stuff that breathes magnificently....And it takes real moxy to go out, as 'Sun-Day' does, in the great, keening gusts of a tenor-drum duo.\"\u003c\/em\u003e – Greg Buium, DownBeat\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003chr\u003e\r\n\r\nNew York based \u003cstrong\u003eQuinsin Nachoff\u003c\/strong\u003e’s \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMagic Numbers\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ecombines the sax trio tradition of freewheeling improvisation and the discipline of a classical string quartet into an original aesthetic. Most of the music was composed before 2000, when Nachoff met and played with drummer Jim Black at the Banff Centre and decided Black’s textures and grooves would be perfect for the music. That’s when he also met Montreal-based classical\/jazz\/world\/pop violinist Nathalie Bonin.\r\n\r\nIn 2005 he invited Black and bassist Mark Helias to Toronto to perform and record the music. Bonin chose the other string players from among Montreal’s young classical elite. With Helias acting as the bridge between the classical and improvisational worlds, Bonin sometimes improvising too (e.g. “Branches”), and Black often laying down a rockish 8th note beat, the music took on its definitive shape and emotional charge, with some great solos (e.g. Black’s in “Sun-Day” as well as Helias’s solo with the strings). Nachoff’s saxophone inhabits the music’s melodic and harmonic heart, his singing lines demonstrating the expressive range, fluency and cohesion of a mature, thoughtful improviser. The arrangements are often complex, the strings elegantly weaving together the music’s forms and textures in sometimes unexpected ways.\r\n\r\nAs Quinsin writes in the liner notes, he was seeking a diplomatic blend of musical genres and styles which would nevertheless maintain the essence of melody and beauty. “I grew up listening to a lot of 20th century composers because my parents were really into that, starting with Stravinsky, Ravel, Debussy, going up to Stockhausen, Xenakis…I tried to cover quite a spectrum, sometimes within a piece and certainly across the album as a whole. The ballad ‘October’ is a really meditative, melancholy and austere tune. ‘Branches’ is frenetic. ‘To Solar Piazza’ tries to capture the angst and intensity of Astor Piazzolla’s music. ‘Circles \u0026amp; Waves’ is aiming for a fresh sort of romanticism along the lines of Kenny Wheeler and Maria Schneider. ‘Postmodern’ is crazier and more playful, little snippets of Mozart moments, free improv, Stravinsky, Shostakovich and rock all juxtaposed or squished together. ‘Whorls’ is much more serious, inspired by Berg and Schoenberg.”\r\n\r\n\u003chr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuinsin Nachoff\u003c\/strong\u003e, tenor \u0026amp; soprano saxophone, compositions\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eMark Helias\u003c\/strong\u003e, bass\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eJim Black\u003c\/strong\u003e, drums\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eNathalie Bonin, Noémi Racine Gaudreault\u003c\/strong\u003e, violins\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean René\u003c\/strong\u003e, viola\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eJulie Trudeau\u003c\/strong\u003e, cello","brand":"Songlines Recordings","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56740493492548,"sku":"SGLSA15562-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56740493525316,"sku":"SGLSA15562-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56740493558084,"sku":"SGLSA15562-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56740493590852,"sku":"SGLSA15562-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56740493623620,"sku":"SGLSA15562-15","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56740493656388,"sku":"SGLSA15562-16","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56740493689156,"sku":"SGLSA15562-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56740493721924,"sku":"SGLSA15562-18","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56740493754692,"sku":"SGLSA15562-19","price":27.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 512 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56740493787460,"sku":"SGLSA15562-21","price":35.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DXD 24 Bit \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56740493820228,"sku":"SGLSA15562-23","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57342898733380,"sku":"SGLSA15562-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57342898766148,"sku":"SGLSA15562S69","price":26.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57342898798916,"sku":"SGLSA15562S710","price":25.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57342898831684,"sku":"SGLSA15562S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57342898864452,"sku":"SGLSA15562S1517","price":30.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57342898897220,"sku":"SGLSA15562S1617","price":34.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/SGLSA15562.jpg?v=1778498374","url":"https:\/\/www.nativedsd.com\/products\/sglsa15562-magic-numbers","provider":"NativeDSD Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}