Talk:Sam Sadigursky

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The below was on the article's page , but shouldn't be. It's fluff. Maybe someone can find a way to integrate some of it into the main article again at some point. EddieHugh (talk) 20:14, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

"Jazz and poetry never really became a movement. Over the past 90 years or so, the hybrid form has had a few peak periods and some embarrassing lows. On the strength of Sam Sadigursky’s work, we may be at one of the peaks." - Doug Ramsey, Rifftides

"...personal, not particularly restricted by ideas of musical genre, quite complex and resolutely unshowy...there are warm pop ballads, voices overlapping in a choir, jagged polyrhythms built of woodwinds, bass lines on a constant walk, kalimbas setting up a mode for the singer. Ultimately the album doesn’t lean too heavily on the strength of the words. It’s as if the process energized Mr. Sadigursky so much that he wrote music good enough to take your mind off the poems." - Ben Ratliff, The New York Times

"Sadigursky reinvents the clarinet for the 21st century." - London Jazz News

“gracefully high-minded explorations of poetic form” - Nate Chinen, The New York Times

"...compelling soundscapes that sit on the intersection of the classical art song and a wide-ranging eclecticism that references jazz, world music, post-minimalism and pop... a self-contained sound world of beguiling combinations of vocalists and mysterious orchestration." -Mark Stryker, Detroit Free Press

“Sam Sadigursky is certainly not the first musician to blend jazz and poetry but he is one who has continued to search for new ways to express both his creativity and help bring the music out in the poetry he explores... The music feels fresh, conversational, wonderfully interactive and quite alive.” - Richard Kamins, StepTempest

"a talent to watch" - Ken Shimamato, The Fort Worth Weekly

"A revelation... a work that fuses the sadness and joy inherent in life and filters them through life’s beauty and absurdity in a way that helps me remember why I love both music and words so much." - Brad Walseth, jazzchicago.net

"One of the most highly regarded of a young generation of composer/performers on the New York jazz scene... releasing challenging new works that bridge music and literature...a triumph of concept, composition and execution, filled with haunting voices, often dark, sometimes playful melodies, and overall a stunning marriage of word and sound. - Andrea Canter, jazzink.blogspot.com

"that rare anomaly: a jazz-and-poetry record that sounds utterly natural and convincing" -Steve Smith, nightafternight.blog.com

"triumphant and introspective soundscapes...the improvisation is always exciting, enough to make repeated listens enjoyable. The Words Project is a great piece of modern jazz and an accessible album for new jazz listeners." - Michael Ferguson, jazzreview.com

"When artistic ambition is combined with the talent to fulfill the plan, something special is bound to happen. The Words Project is reedman Sam Sadigursky’s leadership debut, and that he chose to mix words and music is ambition of the highest order. That it succeeds so completely is a tribute to the faith Sadigursky had in his vision.... The music of The Words Project is glorious and easily stands on its own, with many impressive purely instrumental sections. This complex, deeply effecting work is a real paradox in that it is simultaneously a whole, and also two parts that cooperate and compete." - Budd Kopman, All About Jazz

"A jazz vocals album with a classic sound but an intimately challenging modern approach. Whereas the compositions engage the brain with an immediate differentiation from standard jazz vocals albums, those same compositions give plenty of room for Correa to breathe warmth into each tune, making it very easy to simply sit back and enjoy. Good stuff." - Dave Summers, eMusic

"Sam Sadigursky’s well tailored musical atmospheres reveal a sensitive approach to musical prosody... a set of vaporous, modernist scenescapes.... Throughout, Sadigursky’s flowing phraseology empathetically follows the free versed and, oftentimes, tricky meters... The project’s more challenging moments, enlivened by its instigator’s elaborate melodies, fare very well, and are given a unity despite the multifarious sweep of the original material." - Martin Gladu, All About Jazz

"Entrancing... hypnotic.... a musical world full of riches and you should partake in this feast." -Richard Kamins, courant.com

"Vibrant and thought-provoking... Sadigursky has truly created one of the more fascinating records of recent years. His ambition is rewarded by a set of performances that is a brilliant effort from start to finish." - Jay Collins, Cadence Magazine

"Profound... sublime..." - Jazzman Magazine (France)

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