“What is most successful about I insist is an insistence of music as not simply technical proficiency, but as a spiritual plane to consider what is at stake in imagining and remembering who we are.”

★★★★

— Joshua Meyers, Downbeat

“For the young, Brooklyn-based tenor saxophonist Kazemde George, to insist doesn’t necessarily mean raising the volume or pushing idiosyncrasy … what George insists upon most — from himself and his bandmates — is clarity: Melody is never sacrificed to flair or crossfire, even as the momentum builds.”

— Giovanni Russonello, New York Times

“This is an album that is both timeless and modern”

— George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly