Bio
Trumpeter, composer and educator Cyrus Nabipoor splits his time between New Orleans and his hometown of Portland, OR. He speaks through the horn with an earnest & distinctive voice which soars over a unique style of crossover-jazz.
Cyrus has been a featured artist at the PDX Jazz Fest, Cathedral Park Fest, Montavilla Jazz Fest, New Orleans French Quarter Fest, and Instigation Fest. He has had several works commissioned by Portland Jazz Composer’s Ensemble. In addition to leading his own group, Cyrus is a member/collaborator of Reb & The Good News, Noruz, Korgy & Bass and Puddletown Stompers. He has had the pleasure of working with artist such as Jamison Ross, Elle King, Tarriona “Tank” Ball, Nicky Youre, James Singleton, Jason Marsalis, Steve Masakowski, Mike Dillon, Stanton Moore, Larry Sieberth, Alan Jones, Dan Balmer, Nicole McCabe & more. Cyrus has produced horn tracks for artists including Nicky Youre, Peach Tree Rascals, Clubhouse, and David Hugo.
As an educator Cyrus is on faculty at Loyola University New Orleans, is an Artist-in-Residence at multiple Portland Public High Schools, and runs a private studio.
Born and raised in Portland OR, Cyrus Nabipoor began playing trumpet at age 11. He wanted to play the trombone, but it wouldn’t fit on his bike. As an adolescent he studied with Derek Sims & Alan Jones. Cyrus holds a B.M. from Loyola University New Orleans, where he graduated magna cum laude and was awarded outstanding undergraduate in both Jazz and Brass. While at Loyola, he studied with Nick Volz, Tony Dagradi and Jimbo Walsh. In 2015, Cyrus was awarded the International Trumpet Guild Jazz Scholarship.
Press
"Nabipoor’s strength is that it is never possible to anticipate his next move...The jazz equivalent of a first-year pitcher who throws 99 m.p.h....His trumpet chops are deadly and his penetrating brass tone is classically pure (except when he turns it dirty)."
-JazzTimes
A bandleader and composer/arranger for whom no style or emotion is off limits."
-Offbeat Magazine
"A musician intent on blurring the future and past...'Live at the Marigny Opera House' is a finely paced, well crafted, quietly revealing debut with a keen sense of smoldering tradition and youthful investigation."
-All About Jazz
"Nabipoor’s compositions concern themselves less with fitting into one jazz idiom or another and more with a pure, almost ecstatic sense of in-the-moment expression"
-KMHD Jazz Radio
Selected Discography
Leader/Co-leader
In Lieu of Tears
(Independent) 2023
Live at the Marigny Opera House
(Independent) 2020
Live At PreSonus (w/ Korgy & Bass)
(Cavity Search Records) 2020
Futa Trap (w/ Noruz)
(Independent) 2020
Remote (w/ Korgy & Bass)
(Cavity Search Records) 2019
The Witching Hour (w/ Noruz)
(Independent) 2018
Losing Focus (w/ Outer Core)
(Breakfast 4 Dinner Records) 2017
The Animal Singles (w/ Noruz)
(Independent) 2015-16
Drawing Purple Orbits (w/ The Wishermen)
(Independent) 2012
Horn Arr./Prod.
Nicky Youre - Good Times Go
(Columbia Records) 2023
Maggie Koerner - Wasted
(Mirrorball) 2022
Clubhouse - Home Videos
(AWAL Recordings) 2021
Peach Tree Rascals - Welcome to Camp Nowhere
(HomeMade Projects) 2021
David Hugo - We Made It
(^_^) 2021
Peach Tree Rascals - Fumari
(HomeMade Projects) 2020
Sideman/Session
Barra Brown - Cyrus
(Cavity Search) 2021
Brass Lightning - Consonance
(Independent) 2022)
Jeff Albert - Unanimous Sources
(Breakfast 4 Dinner) 2020
Squirrel Queen - Life & Death & In Between
(Independent) 2020
Barra Brown - Raverborg
(Cavity Search) 2019
Cyrus Snow - Winter Came
(Independent) 2019
Korgy & Bass - Beauty Marx
(Cavity Search Records) 2019
Doombalaya - Doggy Day Dreams
(Independent) 2019
Roadside Glorious - Brawn & Bone
(Independent) 2018
The Convenience - EP
(Independent) 2018
Miss Mojo - Love In Time
(Independent) 2018
Sexual Thunder - Pleasure to the People
(Independent) 2017
Doombalaya - Pants on Fiya
(Independent) 2017
Flow Tribe - Boss
(Faction) 2017
Doombalaya - Dinner
(Independent) 2015