"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
"Noruz has become one of New Orleans’ most intriguing bands, creating unmatched melodies through a distinct blend..."
- Offbeat Magazine
"Dichotomies are really interesting to me, as a wind instrument player using electronics. You have this innate duality of organic and synthetic, acoustic and electric, nature vs. man"
-Interview w/ Offbeat Magazine
"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
“Cyrus Nabipoor and his quintet dive headfirst into the deep end of musical conversation in this live performance...[He] elegantly displays his chops in a mindful and charismatic manner”
-All About Jazz
"The ingratiating melodic profile of Nabipoor's music and its avoidance of overstatement make this an attractive [record]."
-Jay Harvey