"We have received nothing but compliments on your performance from the audience and personally I felt it was a great show with a distinct brand of big band music not often heard any more."
- Peter Tulloch, Oakville Jazz Festival
"This band of 17 young, energetic musicians will do anything to please — and please they do! Even before reaching the end of their opening number the audience was applauding enthusiastically. At intermission, everyone was all smiles; it was a forgone conclusion that there would be a standing ovation at the end. Michele Doyle's voice was awesome — warm and furry or sexy and slinky — as needed. Sprinkled throughout the program were old jazz and swing standards, but if they didn't tell you that the rest of the tunes were written by Whitney, and arranged by various members of the band, you would be sure that they were old Dorsey or Ellington tunes that you had forgotten. Wonderful!"
— Peter D. Smith, General Manager, Imperial Theatre, Saint John, New Brunswick
"I love Whitney’s personal compositions — some of the tunes are still hanging around in my head — and deserve to become standards. The variety of styles was amazing!"
— Judy Amesbuy, Performing Arts Lakefield
"The whole evening was transporting — it was sophisticated, cool and stylish. I felt I was in another place and time, We all began to dance: men, women, together, apart. The band moved in harmony, they looked like a painting come to life and come to sound."
— Karen Mulhallen, editor, Descant Magazine
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