Press
Quotes
"There is a neat brilliance to Byron Asher's music." - Anthony Dean-Harris, Nextbop.com review of "100% Humidity"
“An essential voice of current jazz and improvisation.” - Ferdinand Dupuis-Panther review of “Meeting In Progress”
"The obvious stylistic comparison would be to Ornette Coleman with flavors of Dexter Gordon from Asher’s dark tenor tones, but that would be too simplistic. The true virtue of what is going on here is the lack of self-indulgence." - Offbeat Magazine, NOLA
"There's a clear strategic intelligence and inventiveness at work... a range of musical influences showing a substantial depth of artistic resourcefulness. Byron Asher’s large, generous tenor sax tone and melodic invention recall Sonny Rollins." - Kevin Lynch, No Depression Magazine
Praise for Skrontch Music
"One of the top 20 jazz albums of 2019." -- textura.org
“Skrontch Music effects a deft integration between past and future. As a musical accomplishment, the recording's impressive, but its incorporation of historical background makes it resonate all the more meaningfully.” -– textura.org review of Skrontch Music
"A kaleidoscopic montage of action-packed artistry." -- Mike Greenblatt review of Skrontch Music in The Aquarian
“Brilliant stuff.” – Backseatmafia.com review of Skrontch Music
“Skrontch Music is a project greater than the sum of its talented contributors. This is vibrant and living jazz which can also be stately and reflective as it brings the traditions into the present tense. Very much a listening album which rewards every repeat play.” – Elsewhere.co.nz review of Skrontch Music
“I don't claim to know every bit of music that is out there in the universe being made, but it's been a long time since I've heard a new jazz work by a relatively new artist that draws me back for repeated listens.” — Mark Smotroff, Audiophile review of Skrontch Music
Links
Something Else! premiere of “Blues Obligato” video from Skrontch Music
Backseat Mafia premiere of "Elegy” video from Skrontch Music
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript promo of my MacDowell Downtown lecture, November 2018
Promo for Skrontch Music at the 2017 Forestival on Inside the Arts with Diane Mack, WWNO New Orleans