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• The Wall Street Journal is Bullish on Curtis Stigers
  Jul 30th, 2011
• A Rave From Rochester!
  Jun 16th, 2011
• 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
• 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

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