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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
"There are plenty of guitarists with chops but few whose fingers can write and paint pictures this musically." - Mark F. Turner, All About Jazz
“Baggetta has a wide comfort zone. He essays bop as facilely as he does a ballad, balancing his technique with a high degree of creativity.”
- Jerry D’Souza, All About Jazz
“...comparisons will be made to Bill Frisell and Ralph Towner, but that's certainly not all there is to Baggetta. While he shares some stylistic elements and sense of space with both, he goes his own way more often than not.” - Jeff Wanser, JazzReview.com
"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
“Mike Baggetta is an inventively melodic and thoughtful guitarist who says a lot in ballads or free jazz flights without ever assaulting the listener with maudlin sentiment or tsunami-like technical displays filled with sound and fury signifying nothing” - Owen McNally, The Hartford Courant
"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
"...his melodic sense is truly beautiful." - Tom Chandler, Jazzreview.com
Press Quotes for the Mike Baggetta Quartet
“Source Material” (Fresh Sound New Talent), the new album by the guitarist Mike Baggetta, suggests a busy variety of postbop, but not one without room to breathe.” - Nate Chinen, The New York Times
"This is a superb band...outstanding, and the performances are totally compelling." - Andy Hamilton, Jazz Journal (UK)
“...an excellent guitarist. Baggetta’s tunes are innovative... In the hands of these musicians, each one becomes an evocative journey.” - Ron Netsky, Rochester City Newspaper
"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
“...a stellar quartet...” - New York Music Daily
Press Quotes for Tin/Bag
"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... both deeply relaxed and totally engaging." - 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
"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
