Chicago Examiner
'this disc invites celebration - the conviction that we're finally hearing Simon's music executed with the greatest fidelity to its artistic potential.'
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Pittsburg Tribune
"a highly individual blend of mellow jazz and thoughtful music with classical discipline"
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allmusic.com
'a tonic for the rat race blues and crazed rhetoric we are bombarded with every day.'
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Cadence
"from a compositional standpoint the music comes as a welcome relief."
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Blitz Magazine: The Shape Of The Things To Come
"as Simon's media release suggested, "pop sensibility with jazz complexity". Indeed."
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Jazz Journal
"The music overall is played with strength, warmth and conviction and well worth investigating"
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Jazz Times
"brimming with impressionistic colours...most appealing"
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OsPlaceJazz.com
"Since Forever is conducive to relaxation and a sense of peace"
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Jazz Chicago.net
"Weaving elements from classical, jazz, world music and folk and pop into a tableau that shifts seamlessly from bright and bouncy...to melancholic...to thematic"
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Berman Music Foundation
"a generous offering from underappreciated composer and pianist Fred Simon."
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GappleGate Music Review
"extreme lyricism with soul and an ability to play inside or outside"
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Audiophile Audition
"some of the best American jazz"
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The Examiner
"a thoughtful jazz sound, that touches on elements of new age and even folk without surrendering the ability to swing"
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Midwest Record
"loaded with the warmth of an over due Christmas homecoming"
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MusicWeb International
"Simon's compositions all have a placid melodic appeal which repays repeated listening."
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Jazzwise
"a[n] elegiac, deeply romantic tunes that long time compatriots McCandless and Rodby interpret with an easeful poise"
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Jazz Breakfast
"There is a compositional, controlled and considered mood to the whole album and all the playing, and the recording is as fine as you would expect from the makers of high-end hi-fi."
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Manchester Evening News
"Attractive chamber jazz that should please fans of Oregon, Windham Hill and Keith Jarrett."
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