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From singer Alexa Fila:

“I had more fun sitting in at your gig at Via Della Pace than the last time I played at Birdland!”

From an old copy of the Police Gazette that one of our fans stumbled upon at the back of Hudson News at Penn Station:

I was beginning to think that music in this town was dead. I'd dropped into the Jazz Standard a few months back. The music was all angles and hard edges. Not a body moving, not even a foot tapping in the whole crowd. Most of them looked like they were listening to a lecture. I came back a few weeks later and it wasn't much better. I tried the Vanguard, an old reliable. Same story there: all highbrow stuff. I was ready to give up...... more

From lawyer Matt Coles:

Buster Elliot proves it can do pre World War II standards, eh? Well, okay, I guess Kurt Weil really is a jazz composer (anybody who worked with Brecht has to be a subversive). Jerome Kern hated jazz renditions (he refused to let anyone record any part of the score from "Sitting Pretty" for that reason – too bad, there is some great stuff mostly forgotten). Still, “All the Things You Are,” I admit, is a staple. Tricky, though, with that infamous key change Kern thought would doom it as a popular song. Shows you how much he knew. I really loved what you guys did with it. Parts of it have been playing in my head all morning (that may explain my budget memo).

But really, you have to be a true pro to pull off “Softly As in A Morning Sunrise.” And you did. Sigmund Romberg swings. Well, well. Would have been news to him.

You guys were great. I could listen to you play those three tunes for a week and not get tired (the rest of the stuff was great too, I just don't know it so well. Actually, there were times I liked listening to stuff I didn't know better than the stuff I did know. Shows you how much I know). And I loved the sound King Downing added. Hope you guys have him sit in again.

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