20th August 2020: Quinsin Nachoff Pivotal Arc – press highlights include ★★★★ from All About Jazz + reviews from Jazzwise, Pan M 360 and Winnipeg Free Press + new articles in #WhirlwindInFocus and International Society of Jazz Arrangers & Composers

Quinsin Nachoff is renowned as an inventive and genre-crossing saxophonist and composer. His most recent project is Pivotal Arc an ambitious, long-term collaboration between Nachoff, violinist Nathalie Bonin and some of the finest musicians from across North America. The result is this album, which features a brand-new String Quartet, a Violin Concerto and the title track, a piece for large ensemble.

The album is available to purchase on 12″ LP 180g Limited Edition Vinyl / CD / DL on site: here

You can read Quinsin’s thoughts on the new release in the International Society of Jazz Arrangers & Composers, and in his feature on the #WhirlwindInFocus series.

Included below are recent press highlights for the album, including words from All About Jazz and Jazzwise Magazine.

“There’s something strikingly inventive and vivid about Nachoff’s music.”

★★★★ All About Jazz (full review)

“A convincing contemporary classical concerto”

Jazzwise Magazine

“Pivotal Arc is exciting and most intense, one of the best modern classical works I’ve heard in a long while.”

Downtown Music Gallery Review

“Nachoff shows he is a creator who has nothing to envy contemporary composers of classical allegiance, even though he comes from the jazz world.”

Pan M 360 (full article)

“Quinsin is now defining experimental in new ways.”

★★★★ 1/2 Winnipeg Free Press (website)