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...pensive, melodic...mellifluous...
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Eddie Becton, All About Jazz, LA

Clarinetist Jesse Canterbury gets an equal share of the solo space on [Tom Baker Quartet's] “Look What I Found” and uses it to identify himself as one of the best new improvising clarinetists around. Possessing a round, woody tone and an agile, quick-witted technique, Canterbury’s relaxed approach and limitless well of ideas provide numerous highlights...
-Dave Wayne, JazzReviews.com

Friday night's concert (at the 18th Seattle Improvised Music Festival) began with an astounding set from two Seattle improvisers, Jesse Canterbury (clarinet) and Tari Nelson-Zagar (violin). Testing their instruments' possibilities, the duo explored musical relationships that were at once harmonious and discordant. At one point, the violin maintained a drone while the clarinet hit related and unrelated pitches. One of their most exciting passages occurred when Canterbury and Nelson-Zagar went tobogganing down an avalanche of musical invention at different tempos.
- Bill White, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

...sublime...virtuosos Jesse Canterbury and Tari Nelson-Zagar...
- Christopher DeLaurenti, The Stranger, Seattle

...accomplished...
- Gavin Borchert, The Seattle Weekly