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Release Date: 27 February 2026
Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5065024546014
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
Every new release from Quinsin Nachoff is a headline event, a radical combining and recombining of sonic and conceptual innovations, ever-evolving textures, powerful melodies and rhythms, that always open up new vistas for exploration while clearly marking the way back to what has come before. The album Patterns from Nature is an unashamedly ambitious showcase for his remarkable abilities as a composer and orchestrator, working within the space where the heartfelt collaborative improvisation of jazz meets the adventurous rigor of contemporary music and the depth and complexity of conceptual art.
As composer, Nachoff created the closely written, intricately detailed scores for a pair of large-ensemble pieces. As bandleader, he oversaw the realisation of those scores by a hand-picked team of remarkable genre-crossing musicians, including pianist Matt Mitchell, percussionist Satoshi Takeishi, bassist Carlo De Rosa, clarinetist Francois Houle, trombonist Ryan Keberle, and the internationally renowned Molinari String Quartet, supported by a large chamber ensemble conducted by JC Sanford.
As interdisciplinary collaborator, he worked with physicist Dr. Stephen Morris, whose research into emergent patterns in nature informed the project's structural concepts, and four filmmakers - Tina de Groot, Lee Hutzulak, Gita Blak, and Udo Prinsen - originally conceived alongside them for a multimedia version of the work, resulting in the titular Patterns from Nature suite of four contrasting movements that engage the listener at every level. For the second work, the intricately conceived three-movement concerto Winding Tessellations, Nachoff takes center stage as tenor saxophone soloist, exploring the interplay of structured composition, improvisational freedom, and dynamic orchestration.
Tracklisting
Sultan Stevenson
Empirical
Linley Hamilton
Samara Joy
Lakecia Benjamin
Michael Olatuja
Josephine Davies
Josephine Davies
Quinsin Nachoff
