There is a varied array of high caliber Blue Canoe Records artists represented in Volume I of the "Look What the Cats Drug In" series. Here is a short selection of comments that others have made about these artists...

"Donald Brown (Knoxville Jazz Orchestra) is a genius." - Wynton Marsalis

"For those who look around and ask, 'Where is the next great jazz composer? Who is going to lead the music into the 21st century?' Look no further. Donald Brown is here" - Ron Carter

"Ron Westray is probably one of the best trombone players of this generation." - Wildy's World Blog

"(Jimmy Junebug) Jackson is a sterling drummer...He skillfully blends rolling fills with pointed and eloquent interjections" - Stephen Lalessa, All About Jazz

"Dan Baraszu is a chopmeister whose punchy percussive attack comes out of the George Benson-Pat Martino school of single-note burn" - Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times

"...Eugene Maslov is far from a household name despite a dynamic and flexible piano style that can be as effusive as Oscar Peterson's or as wistful as Bill Evans'" - Scott Albin, Jazz.com

"E.J. Hughes is a talented young musician who understands the beauties and intricacies of music, an artist destined to make a valuable contribution..." - Sam Rivers, Grammy Nominee

"(Bryan Lopes)...an extremely powerful tenor saxophonist of virtuoso technique and broad versatility." - Phil D. Pietro, All About Jazz