Album Notes

What the critics are saying about Dom and
" Takin' The Duke Out "
" If Coltrane shattered harmony with his "sheets of sound," then Minasi is busy here picking it up again and extending it with his "thousand points of light" that simultaneously tickle, taunts, and runs away ".
Charles Walker jazz review.com " A true jazz original" Bill Milkowoski
"A powerhouse band" Larry Nai
E Jazz News
"Unimpeachable virtuosity " DaveReitzes
Signal To Noise
"The same irreverence that Duke had in mind"
Jim Fisch
20th Century Guitar
"Takin' The Duke Out " is a " post modern monument"
C. Michael Bailey
All About Jazz
" A wake-up call for open-minded listeners "
Ted Drozdowski
Phoenix .com "You've never heard anyone play guitar like this"
Tuscon Weekly
"Superb in its own right" Steven H.Koenig La Folia on Line Review "One of the most stirring and thought provoking jazz efforts of 2001 "
Glenn Astarita
All About Jazz
"A fun listen" John Ephland
Downbeat Magazine
" this group is coherent, inventive and inspiring ..a rare combination" Nils Jacobson
All About Jazz
" a talented trio that is bold enough to approach the great Duke Ellington's music in their own way"
Mark F. Turner
All About Jazz
" An extraordinary trio date with some astonishing playing from all three of these local giants"
Bruce Galanter
Downtown Music Gallery Newsletter
"Minasi's "Solitude" is truly one of the most individuval
interpretations you can ever expect to ever hear...on record" Laurence Donohue-Greene
All About Jazz