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Ronnie Scott’s Guardian Review
Middle age suits Curtis Stigers better than his long-haired youth. Immaculate in tie, suit and breast-pocket handkerchief, he is smack bang in fashion, making the kind of Blue Note post-bop to which 1960s ad executives sipped martinis. He comes across like an amalgam of Mad Men characters Roger Sterling and Jimmy Barrett...
- The Guardian - John L Walters - Aug 4th, 2010
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Curtis Stigers at Pizza Express Jazz Club
- London Times - Clive Davis - Jun 23rd, 2005
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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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Curtis Stigers – Queen Elizabeth Hall (London)
"All in all it was an exciting, enjoyable and very diverse evening of swinging jazz, performed by consummate masters of the art."
- FLY.CO.UK - Jan 31st, 2005
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All Dues Paid in Full
"...there was a certain amount of bemusement when his new record, You Inspire Me, was chosen as this paper's jazz album of 2003. It was no mirage, no sudden attack of acute 1990s nostalgia. You Inspire Me is a superb record, and Curtis Stigers is a marvellous jazz singer..."
- Clive Davis, The London Sunday Times - Jan 25th, 2004