What
are they saying about us....?!?
--Features--
(click on a quote to see the entire article...)
San Diego Union Tribune, July 30, 2009:
"Violin
maverick Skye Steele has charted a diverse creative path since he...
moved to New York to seek improvisationally charged aural adventure.
The enticing fruits of his labors are readily apparent on “Late
Bloomer,” his aptly titled debut album as a band leader." --George Varga, The Other Stream.
Cadence
Review, July, 2008:
"It's
clear that this crew is ready to stretch out in a million different
directions and have tons of fun doing it.... Steele's fiddle
darts in and out of the oddball rhythmic structures with great panache
and rhythmic assurance.... Steele's fabulous tone and inventive solo
sense didn't just happen overnight."
--Stuart Kremsky
Downtown Music Gallery, May, 2009:
"I am
not so sure if Skye Steele is actually a late bloomer, but I am sure
that he has come up with an unexpected classic that should be cherished
by those smart enough to take a chance and listen."
-- Bruce Lee Gallanter
Lucidculture.com, January 28, 2009:
"Thoughtful,
meditative instrumentals, full of beautiful little intricacies, often
absolutely mesmerizing: you can get completely lost in this stuff."
New York Press, May 30, 2007:
"There seems to be little limit for what
Skye Steele, the young violinist, can do throughout the local musical
landscape."
--Ernest Bartheldes
All About Jazz NY, November 29,
2008:
"Steele
displays his traditional violin chops on a solo "My Funny Valentine"
creating rich harmonies with doubled and tripled string bowing. Rock
shuffle rhythms vie with polyrhythms from the Middle East from track to
track, with rubato and wafting rhythms suggesting an elegiac tone at
times."
--George
Kanzler
Lucidculture.com, March 26, 2009:
"A
strange, sometimes unearthly and utterly beautiful album by innovative
violinist/composer Skye Steele and his superb backing unit"
--listings
and one-liners--
"Rustic and worldly."
--Nate Chinen, New York Times
"Some
of the Best New Jazz New York City has to offer.... the most
fantastic violinist... the type of musician who made the violin
transcend beyond all the classical music stereotypes into an
ephemeral, personal space."
--FreeNYC.net
"Steele makes his instrument sing
joyously."
--Frank
Rubolino, Cadence Magazine, Oct 2004
"Eclectic
and Graceful"
--Time Out NY
