28th January 2019: New York Standards Quartet Heaven Steps to Seven press recap includes ★★★★ from Jazzwise Magazine and DownBeat magazine editor’s pick feature + Big Band Concert at Slope Lounge Brooklyn

28th January 2019, The NYSQ Big Band (arrangements by Tim Armacost and David Berkman) are at The Slope Lounge in Brooklyn playing music from ‘Heaven Steps to Seven’ and highlights from their previous albums.

Here are the latest press highlights for Heaven Steps to Seven

“Standards remain standards because bands like NYSQ keep finding new avenues of meaning within them. Heaven Steps To Seven is a reminder that standards don’t necessarily reside in museum cases; living musicians can set the music free.”
DownBeat Magazine (Editor’s Pick) (website)

“Their constancy as a group is something of a latter day phenomenon… Eclectic choices maybe, but that’s how NYSQ sees things. Good for them.”
★★★★ Jazzwise magazine (website)

“This is document of a band at the absolute top of their game, showing how the standards tradition can still provide a vehicle for some of the freshest and most exciting playing on the scene today.”
Jazz Views (full review)

“NYSQ don’t merely revive these standards, they breathe new life into them… Everything they touch turns to musical gold.”
All About Jazz (full review)

“Another fascinating album from NYSQ.”
Era Jazzu (website)

“The musicians, led by the boldness of Berkman and Armacost, know the tradition thoroughly… What they bring to it is always refreshing.”
Jay Harvey Upstage (full review)