* Spoke’s eponymous 2009 release was singled out for special praise from Paul Blair at Hot House Magazine, who called it “ONE OF THE MOST INVENTIVE RECORDS I’VE HEARD ALL YEAR.”

* New York City’s All About Jazz picked Spoke as a top-ten release in 2009, and said:

The thought that went into the set’s twelve pieces is literally mind-bending… freestanding, differentiated chapters in a series of detailed stories that are anything but traditional… its standards and targets are set far higher than the norm. [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/review_print.php?id=32907]