Tom Varner

Sculpted with absolute precision but loose and swinging in feel, the music never turns fragmentary or episodic, even the shortest piecees are fully realized, composed and uncluttered. Varner plays a gracious role as leader, offering terrific opportunities for the horns to make characterful statements, without letting anybody blemish their book by spinning out rhetoric.



(source: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD - Eighth Edition)