"Every now and again, a jazz player (Gregory Tardy) emerges with enough force to suggest the beginning of a bright career... great tone, technique, song-writing skills and improvisational talent." Standard Observer

"Gregory Tardy is a Young Lion of the late 1990s, a superior and advanced hard bop player with superior technique ..." Scott Yanow, allmusic.com

"Take my word for it. Greg Tardy is a monster tenor saxophonist. I saw him with a makeshift quartet a few years ago and I was so impressed that I started trumpeting the young Tardy to anyone that would listen. ... When I was in New York, I saw him play in a variety of situations, Sunday brunches at the Blue Note, with Andrew Hill, and with Rashied Ali. Coltrane references, the line starts to the left and it is long. So get in line now before the Tardy show is sold out." Fred Jung, Jazz Weekly