Some voices on Jon Sass:
"Sass could revolutionize the tuba" (Edmonton Sun, Canada)
"Jon Sass brings the tuba to places where it's never been before." (Wavelength, New Orleans)
"The hippest bassline in blues played today on tuba by Jon Sass ... Sass' tuba sounds as solidly funky as anything I've ever heard in a New Orleans brass band ... The blues is lucky to have such a skilled player wanting to funk up his chops." (Mary Armstrong, The Philadelphia City Paper)
"Jon Sass has been called the tuba's answer to Miles Davis, and his music here sizzles."
"Jonathan McClain Sass, a virtuoso tuba player from Harlem who now lives in Vienna, defied the reputation of unwieldy instrument by playing exquisite trills that fluttered off into silence." (The New York Times)
"That kinda leaves you with raised eyebrows.
Tuba player did his homework, he was right on the money: tipitipi-ta-bome!" (Clark Terry, Down Beat Magazine)
"Jon Sass seems to be born as a tuba. His instrument is the extension of his soul. His CD 'Sassified' brings across the real reason why there is music to be heard in the first place: pure delight at the highest spiritual level. Jon Sass reveals the modernistic trivial appearances of today with an almost shamanistic way of seeing things. The point where the sophisitication of technology has come to an end is where Jon Sass begins." (Christian Kolonovits)
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