Album Notes

"Recorded in concert at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago, Mark
surrounded himself with a first-rate band on Tenor Reference. Pianist Vince Maggio, a faculty member at the University of Miami, is a master of the jazz language. Bassist Eric Hochberg, drummer Bob Rummage and trumpeter Rob Parton, who appears on Riley's Thang and Bloom's Room, are among Chicago's premier jazz musicians and educators.

Bob Lark, Jazz Studies Chair, DePaul University



"In the jazz standard "Beautiful Love," he crafts unusually
poetic cadenzas that easily withstand repeated hearings; in his own "Blues of a Kind," he produces utterly distinctive timbral effects; and in the classic ballad "My One and Only Love," the delicacy, honesty and emotional surge of his playing are unforgettable."

Howard Reich, Los Angeles Times




...His music reflects an appreciation for the ageless virtues exemplified by Stan Getz: a hooded tone, belbety in the lower register and diamond hard in the upper; pinpoint technique, so that his phrases crackle and pop; and a love of melodies that verge on the voluptuous.

Neil Tesser, Chicago Reader, February 15, 2002