Some excellent stuff from Moffit… As good as the original tracks are, it is the original material that really makes this album worth checking out. Each of the players gets a chance to shine here, and the tracks are never dull for even a moment… lively and enjoyable!
-Music Log by Michael Doherty
Moffit is a straight-ahead player with a flair for sophisticated compositions, beautifully warm tone, and a contemporary edge to phrasing. Moffit’s auspicious debut clearly shows his veteran command of all three elements – composing, arranging, and playing. This is first rate straight-ahead jazz, impeccably rendered and worth many listens.
-Making a Scene by Jim Hynes
Kerry has been featured on over 70 albums as a sideman and was also a member of the US Air Force Band for nearly 25 years. Now with his own band, Turning Circles, behind him, Kerry lets his talents fly on this new eight-track release. The album introduces you to Kerry’s stellar work on the trumpet with the upbeat, opening number “This I Dig Of You.” He keeps the energy flowing with “Free For All,” which allows his bandmates to showcase their stuff.
-JP’s Music Blog by James Pasinski
Out of uniform, Moffit sounds like a guy on weekend leave, tearing into his off-the-base solos as though he’s been waiting to play this way for decades. Similarly, the charts inspired by arrangers such as Neal Hefti and Sammy Nestico fly by like a brisk walk down the hallway practice rooms at North Texas State circa 1985… the most effective moment comes at the end, a tender duet between Moffit and Arlene Pritchard McDaniel’s Rhodes piano on “But Beautiful” that sighs with bittersweet regret.
-Roll Call by John Chacona
As wonderful as those standards are, the Moffit originals are truly remarkable. Yeah, we had to wait too long for this album. With all those years spent in the Air Force Band, Kerry Moffit was honing his craft so that, when he was ready, he could release an album that we longed to hear. Maybe we had to be ready to hear him.
-The Jazz Owl by Travis Rogers, Jr.
Now he’s on his own and letting the rest of us enjoy what he does. Rounding up some pals that know what to do, this is solid, straight-ahead jazz in which leader Kerry Moffit writes most of them as well. Well done.
-Midwest Record by Chris Spector
Kerry Moffit has had an incredible career, despite being a stranger to jazz fans. His sophisticated compositions are up there with the best and he is a brilliant trumpeter with warm phrasing.
-La Habitacion del Jazz (The Jazz Room) by Jose Ramon
Moffit could be described as the greatest modern jazz trumpet player you never heard – until now that is. Keep him in mind when the DownBeat Polls come around. I find it nothing less than wonderful that musicians of this calibre are still breathing new life into such a tried and tested format – it is a credit to both themselves and their predecessors.
-Bebop Spoken Here (UK) by Lance Liddle
– Contemporary Fusion Reviews by Dick Metcalf
– Nick Mondello, All About Jazz