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Articles and Performance Reviews

• Concert review: Curtis Stigers opens jazz festival in Paris >>> NEW!
  "Stigers opened the JVC Jazz Festival Paris with a show at New Morning, one of the hottest jazz clubs in the city..."
  - Dana Oland, Idaho Statesman - Oct 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 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...."
  - The LA Times - 26 May 2005
• Curtis Stigers at Pizza Express Jazz Club (London)
  "...I cannot think of another vocalist who creates such an exuberant combination of bebop artistry and raw emotion..."
  - The London Times - 23 June 2005
• Curtis Stigers - Queen Elizabeth Hall (London)
  - FLY.CO.UK - Monday 31 January 2005
• ALL DUES PAID IN FULL
  Can a pop heart-throb make the grade in the unforgiving world of jazz? Well, Curtis Stigers has, with his remarkable recent album. Clive Davis urges you to listen without prejudice.
  - Clive Davis The London Sunday Times - January 25, 2004
• Rock and Jazz Intertwine in a Hot-and-Cool Concert
  - Stephen Holden, The New York Times - January 17, 2003
• ONE COOL CAT
  - Rex Reed, New York Observer - January, 2003
  
• Performance Review
  - Variety, Robert L. Daniels - January 16, 2003
• Stigers shows love for the genre
  - Los Angeles Times

Album Reviews

• Jazz Times Review >>> NEW!
  "If voices, like wines, had noses, Curtis Stigers' would be dusky oak with hints of Willie Nelson, Harry Nilsson, Ray Charles and Matt Dennis. It's a voice that's at once young and old, tender and tough, warm and inviting as a caress, yet sturdy as a firm handshake..."
  - Christopher Loudon
• REVIEW: I Think It's Going To Rain Today
  "Curtis Stigers has established himself as one of the important artists on the Concord Records label..."
  - jazzreview.com
• The Times of London names "You Inspire Me" BEST JAZZ ALBUM OF 2003
  - The London Sunday Times
• Secret Heart Review
  - London Times
• Secret Heart Review
  - Sunday Times/Culture
• Secret Heart Review
  - Christopher Loudon, Jazz Times
• Secret Heart Review
  - UK Guardian

QUICK QUOTES FROM REVIEWS

• "Rock 'n' roll and jazz share so many of the same artistic bloodlines that it's remarkable the two don't fuse more often into the kind of inspired marriage of visceral clout and intellectual savvy conjured by the singer, songwriter and saxophonist Curtis Stigers."
  -New York Times
• "A fresh new face in the contemporary jazz firmament... Curtis Stigers is headed for stardom"
  -New York Observer
• "... Stigers croons, growls and scats in a fashion that manages to be both as authoritative as a veteran and as fresh as an ingenue. The pervading impression is that of a bebop Ray Charles."
  -MOJO
• "... Stigers might emerge as his generation's answer to Tony Bennett."
  -Minneapolis Star Tribune
• "He can swing as Hard and sensitively as anyone... Stigers is not playing at jazz; he is the real thing."
  -London Times
• "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."
  -Los Angeles Times