"****" best of 2007
(For "People I Like")
- Downbeat Magazine
"Top 10 of 2007-"People I Like" (in 3 publications)
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- Coda Magazine, AllAboutJazz.com, Ed Hazell-Village Voice Jazz Poll
"****" best of 2005 - for The Blueprint Project
(in four publications)
- Downbeat Magazine, Coda Magazine, All About Jazz & The Jazz Review
"One of the leading lights of the young wave of avant-garde jazz musicians"
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The Independent
"The music they make together is nothing short of glorious...music that is a working definition of just how uplifting human creativity can be. It’s what those end-of-year polls were invented for."
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Nic Jones, AllAboutJazz.com (Aug 25, 2007)
"People I Like is serious fun...Bennink’s approval is audible in his exuberant playing. He’s in buoyant form throughout, in his element with a group who are accomplished, imaginative and comitted to enjoyment. Recommended without reservation as an antidote to grey and rainy days."
- Julian Cowley, The Wire
"...an accomplished set from an ensemble of four individuals who’ve mastered the art of simultaneously playing both against and with one another."
- Robert Shore, JazzWise
"Not adverse to good-timey melodies, driven by Bennink’s sand dancer-like brush strokes and unison guitar-saxophone licks, the band is made up of jazzmen as knowledgeable as Bennink."
- Ken Waxman, Wholenote
"Stamey and Rogers coaxed their instruments into tumultuous, nonconcurrent rising and falling melodies, occasionally letting it all collapse into a brilliant heap."
- Washington Post
"Especially wonderful piano solos" (Travels in the South)
- Stereophile Magazine
"They are talented, well educated, thoroughly modern. They can do post-bop, post-Monk, post-Ornette; they can play gospel and tango and free...One of the few jazz groups that feels communal."
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Tom Hull, Village Voice (Jun 21, 2005)
"The Blueprint Project is rich with ideas, confidently executed, melodic and inventive all at once."
- Kevin Whitehead (NPR's Fresh Air, etc.), liner notes
"Top 10 of the year list...One of several things I've heard over the last couple years by artists under thirty that gives me hope for the future of jazz."
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Ted Kane, Jazz Review
"[listening to the Blueprint Project] I am reminded that the naysayers do indeed know nothing and that the future of jazz is secure in the hands of the new generation of young musicians...a tremendous effort."
- AllAboutJazz.com
"..the compositional integrity of a Debussy piano work filtered through a jazz artist's experimental spirit...esoteric grooves...exotic and suave"
(for Pendulabellum)"
- Jonathan Babu, Northeast Performer
"an all-star band that can do no wrong" (Chris Stamey Experience)
- Gene Armstrong, Tuscon Weekly
"One of 2005's most pleasurable albums" (Chris Stamey Experience)
- Michael Pelusi, Prefix Magazine
"Modern to the core" (Blueprint Project)
- Ken Micallef, Modern Drummer
Tyson Rogers
looking at breakfast buffet in Malmö..meatballs, baked beans, red scrambled eggs,salami...all things I would probably not eat for breakfast
