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"I live in an interesting city where interesting things happen, which makes me an interesting person. In the meantime, I play cool and creative music with cool and creative people, and then make omniscient comments about English Football whilst wearing very fashionable menswear." - Bwebb

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Cyrus Nabipoor: Live At The Marigny Opera House

Read "Live At The Marigny Opera House" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Whatever Mother Nature or callous venture bankers do to the battered city of New Orleans, its music keeeps getting passed from legend to legend to legend, to the next wave of youngsters that best exemplifies the historical resiliency of a people and their city. And perhaps one of the busiest and most inventive A-listers on New Orleans' thriving jazz scene is trumpeter Cyrus Nabipoor, whose bold, magnetic lines and openness to free falling genres--Thelonious Monk, funk, rock, trad, hip-hop, bop--makes ...

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Cyrus Nabipoor: Live At The Marigny Opera House

Read "Live At The Marigny Opera House" reviewed by Jim Worsley


Trumpeter Cyrus Nabipoor and his quintet dive headfirst into the deep end of musical conversation in this live performance, with “What Is This." The exchanges between Nabipoor and tenor saxophonist Brad Walker are crisp, spoken with emphasis and assurance. Balancing guitar strains from George Wilde reset the clock, leading to a more inclusive conversation with the rhythm section of drummer Brad Webb and bassist James Singleton. The intensity of the Nabipoor composition, “What Is This," is eschewed for ...

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"I was particularly impressed by Brad Webb’s drumming. Another tweet: “Brad Webb plays drums like a wind-up Freddie Mercury doll. That is a compliment.” " - Jason Crane

"His tunes have an energy and space for his band to make them their own, and that makes for a fine record that any modern-jazz fan will appreciate." - David Kunian, OffBeat Magazine

"It's clear that Webb is making a contemporary jazz album that has kick and bluster without being overwhelming." - Anthony Dean-Harris, Nextbop.com

"Webb on drums keeps the pocket but his decisions there embrace what sounds best more than what's flashiest." - Anthony Dean-Harris, Nextbop.com

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