FOR THE MUSIC OF JAI UTTAL

"...beautifully melodic...exotic yet extremely accessible...an exciting and original approach."
- Oakland Tribune

"...a marvelous blend...could only have been played by somebody who had the style in his bones."
- Keyboard

"Monkey has puncturated into the top ten national world charts and promises to make Uttal the next world-beat superstar."
- Sound Wave

"Jai Uttal is the foremost artist merging traditional Indian music and jazz...a master who is
synthesizing some important and exciting music."
- Los Angeles Reader

"The relative weights of the pop, jazz, Indian, classical, and rock elements shift from song to song, putting Uttal (who has an appealingly reedy voice) somewhere between Peter Gabriel and the Hieroglyphics Ensemble."
- San Francisco Bay Guyardian

"...an intoxicating East/West sound..."
- Jazziz

"Uttal has made the best hybrid Indian music/American pop I've heard..."
- The Denver Post

"...some of the freshest and most compelling world-pop fusion..."
- Sound Waves

"There is a sophisticated richness to the sonic textures that rivals the best albums of Sting and
Quincy Jones...an artist with a purity of vision that is likely to be widely imitated."
- India Currents

"...foot stompin', hip-shakin', bosom-heaving East-meets-West instrumentals punctuated by
Uttal's own grit-in-the-honey vocals...One of the year's best!"
- The Monthly Asperctarian

"An intelligently arranged mix of exotic instruments, ethnic rhythms, church modalities and American jazz...rich, complex, orchestral."
- The Daily Californian

"In an era of ubiquitous world beat...Uttal is one of the few musicians to play Indian music in a Western context while preserving the integrity of his sources."
- Yoga Journal

"Monkey immediately captures the listener with its excellent and intriguingly electric composition, its interesting melodies, and most of all, with its heartfulness."
- New Age Retailer