Nancy Kelly “...a world-class jazz singer in the feisty, swinging tradition of Anita O'Day...superb phrasing, excellent time, great intonation and tons of chops, with a load of charisma to boot.”
Stu Katz “[Stu]Katz . . . remains - along with Barry Harris, Hod O'Brien, and one or two others - among the last fully authentic purveyors of unreconstructed bebop piano in the country.”
Gene Argel “If a lifetime of soulfulness, joy and good karma could be distilled into a single recording, it would sound exactly like this.”
Greta Matassa “Purists might argue there will never be another Ella or Billie. These cats have obviously never heard Greta Matassa!”
David Weiss “Weiss writes tunes with evocative melodic ambivalence and veering surprises and hovering pedal points and metrical asymmetry, all qualities associated with the sensibility that Wayne Shorter brought to jazz. But Weiss does not repeat it, he expands upon it.”
Lynn Bush “...blessed with a smoky voice that recalls the alluring sang-froid of Julie London.”
Donny McCaslin “If this is the future of jazz, we may not yet be prepared, but McCaslin and crew aren't wasting time with baby steps.”
John Gross “Gross' playing is deeply, profoundly human, fat and sensuous yet hard and jagged, inflamed with a gleeful audacity.”
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