Michael Waldrop Big Band “...this auspicious debut bristles with a visceral post-Weather Report energy that brings big bands into new light.”
Dan Cray “Like a poet or a painter who searches constantly for new ways to express himself without losing his core focus...”
Kelly Sill “... (Sill's) oceanic tone carries on a Chicago bass tradition that starts with Milt Hinton and runs through such artists as Wilbur Ware and Rufus Reid...”
Rick Mandyck “Mandyck is back playing tenor—clarion, powerful, thrilling tenor. His sound is commanding but never harsh even when he executes his signature intervals, leaping from lower register blasts to plaintive treble cries.”
Rob Walker “...A sound that harkens to the days of the late Lee Morgan...”
Ricky Sweum “Streaming hypnotic lines together one by one, he tells the story of a soul who must sing and does so with unadulterated beauty and intelligence”
Reuben Radding “Radding's bass soloing has its own voice; in pizzicato less guitar-like than say, vintage Charlie Haden yet much more agile and lively than say, Dave Holland; and arco he just burns--forget other bass players.”
Florian Hoefner “...already now you can feel the strong and intimate bond that unites these musicians...A rare find and unique, their interplay follows and draws Pindaresque emotional rooms: passion, pain, joy and suffused meditative moments.”
Big Neighborhood “...The interplay of the musicians and the fire with which they play is beyond categorization. This is music. It transcends labels and fashion...”
Mike Denny “Denny makes the invention of graceful, logical, swinging ideas sound effortless.”
speak “A debut rocket ride of outstanding quality from the Seattle quintet”
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