brennan’s an abstract expressionist with chops. He’s utterly coherent in his free associative improvisations, and he imbues his music with a great deal of timbral and rhythmic variety. His compositions are fresh and quite original. patrick brennan’s a first class saxophonist and composer, and his trio is one of the most interesting I’ve heard in some time.
Chris Kelsey
Cadence, September, 1996
***
What’s striking about the album is how tight it is, with a stop-start writing style that pushes it along from fragment to clearly defined fragment. All this without losing improvisatory grace.
Will Montgomery
The Wire, May 1996
***
The tracks are mostly brief, pungent and slightly inconsequentiaL There isn’t a piece here that really grabs the attention, and yet cumulatively this is a rather effective record that asks to be heard again.
Richard Cook & Brian Morton
The Penguin Guide to Jazz