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Selected Reviews

“This two-LP set by guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson, a MacArthur Fellow, is pretty much everything you’d want in contemporary jazz. There’s an etherial beauty in her collaborations with the Mivos Quartet and a joyful spontaneity in the improv among the deft musicians… Not only did she do something new, she created something new. New and wonderful.”
-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (on Amaryllis & Belladonna)

 

“Alternately funereal, processional and hauntingly beautiful, the suite-like Amaryllis represents some of the most accomplished writing of Halvorson’s meteoric career.”
-Jazziz

 

“The most important thing is to find your own voice. More than perhaps any other guitarist working today, in jazz or elsewhere, she has succeeded at that deceptively simple aspiration. Hear her play once and you’ll recognize her anywhere: as a soloist, as a leader or accompanist in any number of ensembles, in duos with players from the worlds of avant-garde improvisation or warped indie rock."
-Pitchfork

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“Halvorson doesn’t just figure out how to do some new thing; she pushes herself to do something new that tops what she has already achieved.”
-Magnet Magazine

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