Mark Browning Milner, Producer, Marx Music, www.marxmusic.com:
"This is one cool album .... What impresses me so much about [Larry McDonough's] approach is how he takes a tune and puts it through the filter of his musicality and ends up with something quite different. ... I call it bebop-cum-impressionism, sort of Bill Evans meets Debussy', and that pretty much says it. Being an arranger, I'm much more interested in cool things being done to tunes rather than improvisational chops per se, and Larry's arrangements delight me no end. Linus And Lucy', Layla', and All Blues' are recognizable (well, you might have to work a little bit on Layla'...) but unlike any other versions you've ever heard, with odd twists and cool turns. And Good Day Sunshine'! Larry took my arrangement from [the 1998 BOZO allegro CD] The REVOLVER Suite, which was already slightly out there, and fractured it further...very cool, very weird, very hip. As an improviser, Larry shines on, and if anybody has ever heard of another pianist who takes bass solos, please let me know about it."
Mark Browning Milner, Recollections, Jazz88 KBEM 88.5 Radio, Minneapolis:
"A fabulous keyboardist ... [with] all of this skill and ... finesse as a soloist, it is just an amazing thing. [His] approach is really quite unique. I've never heard anybody who ... takes tunes and turns them upside down. He is not an easy player. He uses a lot of thorny harmonies and really outside kind of stuff, but the general mood is late night, glass of wine, sit and think. I think introspective is a good word for it"
