Daniel Barry “... superbly crafted charts ... fresh, imaginative approach ... Good solos and exceptional ensemble work combined with his excellent charts make for a successful package.”
Ted Poor “Mr. Poor is a sharp young drummer who has had the effect, in recent months, of galvanizing any group in which he plays.”
Joachim Mencel “Above all...Joachim's phrases...have this melodious charm, which is available to only the greatest of pianists.”
Dan McCarthy “A vibraphonist with a charismatic and pointedly contemporary style.”
Bill Anschell “No matter where Anschell plays on the keyboard, he sounds like no other pianist.”
Marc Seales “The ever-tasteful linear inventions of pianist Marc Seales were abetted magnificently as bassist Doug Miller grabbed an inspiration on the trio's special arrangement of Body & Soul and walked away with it - and the crowd.”
The StradBand “...superb. Stradling is a composer of unusual and original melodies and arrangements that are thoughtful, intelligent, and emotive.”
Benjamin Boone “Benjamin Boone knows how to get inside the poem, Phil Levine's inscrutable and imploding loops of poetics, his observations of the seen and unseen. Boone knows where the thing called poetry lives, an ocelot among the waters, a sky-shaped Rain God that flares down upon us. He does this with a myriad of instruments, with human breath chiseling and burning through brass and string, reeds and skin and hands and resin. He is one of the very few that can lure Phil's poetry-magic and call it out and show it to the world...Beyond words up there with the muses.”
Ben Paterson “As soulful an electric pianist-organist as exists anywhere.”
Peter Erskine “...not a tasteless bone in his body. Musicality is of the utmost importance in his every groove, solo, fill, and mini-gesture...”
Dawn Clement “Clear, assured, nimble, and muscular articulation - in the manner of a Phineas Newborn Jr. - is matched to some of the varieties of thought and feeling that he, too, submerged just below the surface of fresh styling.”
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.”
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