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Press Quotes
for Mike Baggetta
"Mike is one of the best young improvisors on
the NY scene!" - Vic Juris,
Jazz Guitarist
"...his melodic sense is truly beautiful." -
Tom Chandler,
Jazzreview.com
"Guitarist/composer Baggetta is one of those subtle players. He does not
overwhelm you with volume or seek to impress with fleet-fingered
improvisations. Instead, each piece he performs creates new worlds of
possibilities...utilizing approaches from many different genres but
never sounding derivative of any one person or school." - Richard Kamins,
The Hartford Courant
"Blessed with a refined
approach and solid technique...Mike Baggetta has the
potential to break the mold of post-John Scofield plectrists." - Michael
G. Nastos, All Music Guide
Press Quotes
for the Mike Baggetta Quartet
"On his solid new release, Small Spaces (Fresh
Sound New Talent), the guitarist Mike Baggetta seeks an adventurous yet
accessible dynamic..." - Nate Chinen,
The New York Times
"This is a superb band...outstanding, and the
performances are totally compelling."
- Andy Hamilton,
Jazz Journal
(UK)
"Rare is the young musician who fuses avant garde and postbop mettles so
effortlessly - Small Spaces is a refreshingly unsafe approach to modern
jazz." - Clifford Allen,
All About Jazz
NY
"...beautifully recorded... a talented quartet
of musicians who are willing to take the occasional risk
while not
losing sight of melody..." - Bruce Lindsay, All About Jazz.com
Press Quotes for Tin/Bag
"Kris Tiner and Mike Baggetta deliver an
attractive album of duets and quartet improvisations that resonate
with a fragile harmonic maturity typically unheard in the work of such
young, occasionally impetuous artists... Never overstepping the
other's bounds, they provide subtle contrasts and complements to the
others statements. Sparse, melodic and understated, And Begin
Again offers a different side of these young and up-and-coming
artists talents." - Troy Collins, All About Jazz.com
"Radiant... there's an open,
intensely emotional quality to the duo's playing... spare, haunting,
with hints of modernist avant garde gestures." - Andy Hamilton, The Wire
(UK)
"Excellent... trumpeter Kris
Tiner and guitarist Mike Baggetta explore abstract yet jazz-derived
realms of expansive lyricism and liquid melody." - Time Out New York
"Careful listening is always
evident as the two play off of each other, whether shadowing lines or
counterbalancing densities and textures of the freely evolving pieces...
What stands out is the tension the two create as they shape the
improvisational forms with the juxtaposition of raw extended technique
and resonating tones and hanging harmonics... the two maintain a taut,
insightful approach to duet interaction." - Michael Rosenstein, Cadence
Magazine
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