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• A Rockin’ Jazzman (or Is He a Jazzy Rocker?) Ignites a Quiet Cabaret
  A lean, pop-jazz hipster whose buzz-saw voice, much like that of Tom Waits, slices away glib sentimentality, Curtis Stigers is not the usual sort of act one finds at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel, although he has played there before. (The last time was five years ago.) Depending on your definition he is either a rock ’n’ roll jazz man who plays a honking saxophone that echoes his raw, craggy singing or a jazz-influenced rocker.
  - New York Times - Stephen Holden - Jun 11th, 2009
• Curtis Stigers Returns to the Algonquin
  Not since Chet Baker has a male warbler been quite so cool at impeccably interpreting the Great American Songbook.
  - Village Voice - David Finkle - Jun 2nd, 2009
• Ronnie Scott’s review, 11/08
  ...the American jazz-blues vocalist simply goes about the business of winning converts among listeners who are not weighed down by preconceptions...
  - The Times of London - Nov 7th, 2008
• Concert review: Curtis Stigers opens jazz festival in Paris
  "Stigers opened the JVC Jazz Festival Paris with a show at New Morning, one of the hottest jazz clubs in the city..."
  - Idaho Statesman - Oct 30th, 2007
• At Live! on the Park, SW1
  "Scanning the coverage of Curtis Stigerss rebirth as a jazz singer the best in the business, I would say tells you an awful lot about how the media loves to fall back on lazy preconceptions..."
  - Clive Davis, London Times - Dec 10th, 2005
• Curtis Stigers at Pizza Express Jazz Club
  - London Times - Clive Davis - Jun 23rd, 2005
• Stigers’ act is far from standard
  "Singer-saxophonist Curtis Stigers can be praised for a lot of things: his powerful sense of swing, his way with a lyric, the inherent musicality of his interpretations...."
  - Special to The Los Angeles Times - By Don Heckman - May 26th, 2005

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