Exile

Exile-Best Jazz Album Of The Year, BBC Jazz Award 2003.

Exile-Best Jazz Album of the Year (2003), Time Out Magazine.

Exile -Number 14th Best Album of the Year (2003), The Observer.

Exile -Number 48 Best Album of the Year (2003), Jazz Time, USA.

".a master of dynamics and the slow-build, mixing lyricism with hoarse, Coltranesque squalls, a combination for which he would have a formidable international reputation as a soloist alone. But his self-appointed mission to restore to jazz a cultural-political clout it had in the first bop era and in the free-jazz of the 1960s makes him something considerably bigger. John Fordham, Cd of the week, The Guardian

"A formidable improvisational array...a local jazz giant steadily drawing himself up to his full height...a blast of fresh air in the UK"-John Fordham, The Guardian

"Atzmon is an astonishing musician with a seemingly effortless ability to demolish and rebuild any old tune he chooses to play."-John Lewis, TIME OUT

"Jazz in the '50s and '60s was inextricably linked to the Civil Rights Movement in the US; and the music of Israeli-born reeds-playing genius, Gilad Atzmon, is similarly enmeshed with the struggles of the Palestinian people" -Joe Cushley , What's On

"A revelation, a multi-reed man of enormous talent."-Tony Richards Musician Magazine

"Atzmon sends his soprano sax and clarinet soaring over complex rhythms
from all points of the globe with a poetry that never forfeits control."- Nina Caplan, Metro

"Audiences are clearly bowled over with Atzmon's whirlwind
approach...dynamic, charismatic and...exasperating!"-Brian Blain, Jazz UK