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"This is a super recording, and ever since I heard it late last summer I knew I had to write about it. I'm sorry it took this long, because it truly is one of the best recordings I've heard this year."
- Blaine Fallis, Jazz about.com
"With Past Tense, Azzolina has made one of the year's feistiest little guitar records."
- Macnie, Village Voice
"A very diverse and satisfying disc."
- Jim Fisch, 20th Century Guitar Magazine
"Guitarist Jay Azzolina's first album in eleven years is devoted entirely to original compositions. Highly recommended."
- All Music Guide
"This is a fine acoustic outing that retains the strengths of the fusion game: the tight, crisp, sparkling guitar work and the precise and fierce sizzling saxophone breathes and pumps a musically multi-viscous lifeblood through the project."
- Dan McClenghan, American Reporter Correspondent
"Jay Azzolina proves there are second acts in American culture. Jay Azzolina is back from the (fusion) grave to take center stage in his second act."
- Mark Corroto, allaboutjazz.com
"It's a pleasure to here Azzolina's guitar prowess in a more rewarding setting."
- John Murph, Jazz Times
"Azzolina is at times a calming influence, energetic sermonizer and an understated accompanist promoting bandmates to inspired insight."
- Buzz Morison, Guitar.com
"Past Tense is a triumph, the guitarist's boldest and most invigorating statement to date."
- Bill Milkowski
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