Testimonial - Robert Matzkin

Sorry it's taken me so long to formally say  "thank you" for your beautiful CD “Cliffhanger.” I don't really know anything about jazz, but I have ears, a mind, a soul, and some taste, so from that perspective, I'll say that your CD is beautiful, classy, and very professional. There are some kinds of jazz I can barely stand, but yours is the kind I really like. It's melodic, structured in a way I can appreciate, and very, very easy to listen to.

Review - WILL FRIEDWALD, Jazz Critic, NEW YORK SUN

on "CLIFFHANGER" by Larry Newcomb
Here I am, eating crow, and looking forward to a dish of humble pie for dessert.  I am listening to a new session by my friend, the guitarist Larry Newcomb, and eating a very large plate of crow.  I was wrong; the guitar-tenor combination can be a wonderful one, in the right hands.  If anything, the instrumentation is even sparer than most of the guitar-tenor quartets since Larry’s group is a trio, co-starring tenor Saxophonist Mike Camoia and bassist Dmitri Kolesnik.  There’s no drummer, but you wouldn’t notice it (honestly, the first time I played the CD through it never even occurred to me that there was no drummer).   Keeping any kind of a tempo without a drummer is difficult, actually swinging without one is close to impossible... click here to read the full review