1. Bullet"Kiermyer plays with volcanic authority."  Dan Ouellette / DOWN BEAT

  2. Bullet"His writing is fiercely primal and his drumming ferocious, unbridled..."
    Fred Bouchard / JAZZIZ

  3. Bullet"Passion, power and pride...An unstinting drive, a bracing and uplifting incantory quality."  Gene Kalbacher / CMJ NEW MUSIC REPORT

  4. Bullet"Absolutely amazing stuff!" Michael Cuscuna / BLUENOTE - IMPULSE - VERVE - MOSAIC

  5. Bullet"...a galvanizing player and highly original composer...superb intuition and intelligence."  Parry Gettelman / ORLANDO SENTINEL

  6. Bullet"...a striking new voice of the jazz vanguard...a daring composer..."  Sam Prestianni/ SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY

  7. Bullet"...he is a polyrhythmic whirlwind...this is the real thing...marvelous, powerfully affirmative music."  Bill Tilland / OPTION

  8. Bullet"...enough to make you believe that music can still be frightening as well as sacred."  John Szwed / THE VILLAGE VOICE

  9. Bullet"Kiermyer plays (and composes) with an almost evangelical belief in jazz as a form of pure inspiration."  David Hajdu / ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

  10. Bullet"Blessed with the ecstatic quality of Kiermyer's free-bop attack...drummer Franklin Kiermyer is that rare 90's jazzman."  David Fricke / ROLLING STONE

  11. Bullet"Kiermyer is a give-no-quarter kind of drummer for whom the word intense would be too mild. He Burns."  Karl Stark / THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

  12. Bullet"...volatile drumming, full of tornado cycles and cascade shimmers."  John Diliberto / CD REVIEW

  13. Bullet"...total commitment by an artist who is searching and growing in a way not often heard in jazz in the last 30 years."  S.D. Feeney / FACE MAGAZINE

  14. Bullet"Kiermyer supercharges spiritual modality...I predict it won't be long before he's a headliner."  Herb Boyd / DOWN BEAT

  15. Bullet"...I haven't heard anyone drum with so much brazenly savage virtuosity since Elvin Jones pounded a hole through the firmament on John Coltrane's Sun Ship." Tim Powis / EYE MAGAZINE

  16. Bullet"Kiermyer sounds like Elvin Jones and Rashied Ali wrapped up into a furious, thunderous package; he must be one of the most exciting and intense drummers around." Linton Chiswick / THE WIRE

  17. Bullet"...a jazz master at work...as forceful as a thunderstorm...a terrific band..." Stephen Israel / TIMES HERALD RECORD

  18. Bullet"a great album...extraordinary...introduces a new player to the jazz elite." Miguel Rocha / CAMPUS ACCESS

  19. Bullet"An explosive player with incredible endurance...remarkably intense." the editors / DRUM!

  20. Bullet"such beauty and energy, I kept turning the volume knob higher and higher." Mark Corroto / SOS JAZZ

  21. Bullet"Kiermyer is a drummer who follows his own muse, creating a sound of yearning and revelation...derived from an intensely personal sensibility."  Sid Gribetz / JAZZ TIMES

  22. Bullet"...a journey in the Sun Ship to heights of spiritual experience through music...captures that mystical ecstasy with magnificent aplomb"  the editors / JAZZIZ

  23. Bullet"...fiery, emotional spirituals..."  Dick Bogle / PORTLAND NEWS

  24. Bullet"Imagine if drummer Elvin Jones and Pianist McCoy Tyner had not left the John Coltrane Quartet in early 1966 and had spent another year with the great saxophonist; it might have sounded something like this." Scott Yanow / L.A. JAZZ SCENE

  25. Bullet"In my more irrational moments I've convinced myself that when God invented jazz he was hoping it might wind up sounding something like this." Tim Powis / EYE MAGAZINE

  26. Bullet"...commanding presence...Franklin Kiermyer is driven." Matt Galloway / NOW MAGAZINE

  27. Bullet"One of the most emotionally charged recordings I've heard in years...packs such a punch it's just a bit difficult to talk about with mere words...you won't find anything better than this date."  Chris Hovan / JAZZ & BLUES REPORT

  28. Bullet"Fiery...it explodes and takes you for a ride. The playing is superb."  Bob Margolis / MTV - VH1.COM

  29. Bullet"The avant quarters of the jazz world are all abuzz over drummer Franklin Kiermyer, and it's a good thing." K. Leander Williams / DOWN BEAT

  30. Bullet"...confident, full-throttle drumming. Even the most secular ears should find Kiermyer compelling." Brent Grulke / OPTION

  31. Bullet"This is a monumental album...Franklin Kiermyer's Solomon's Daughter"  Greg Tate / VIBE

  32. Bullet"Drummer Franklin Kiermyer supplies Pharoah Sanders with some of the tenor man's most memorable sideman dates of his entire career while also providing a forum for Sanders' best playing in seemingly decades of recordings."  L. Donohue-Greene / ONE FINAL NOTE

  33. Bullet"...a work of unquestionable integrity..."  Chris Kelsey / JAZZ NOW

  34. Bullet"The most excitingly dynamic debut by a young jazz voice I've heard in recent years."  Norman Weinstein / DISC RESPECT (The Record Exchange)

  35. Bullet"...pushing each other past the red-line uprising heights of ecstasy. Ecstasy is the operative word."  Dave Luhrssen / THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL

  36. Bullet"...Visionary...(Kiermyer has) landed himself in the land of jazz titans."  James Lien / CMJ NEW MUSIC REPORT

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