Here are a few reviews of
"Queen of All Ears"

"...genuine tenderness and depth."
-New York Times 1998

"...warmly intellectual instrumentals."
-Los Angeles Times 1998

"...A jewel, a long awaited addition to the tradition of conflating composition and improvisation, high romance and vaudevillian hi-jinks. This is jazz about the past made for the present...a masterpiece."
- Billboard magazine 1998

"John Lurie has always been first and foremost a brilliant jazz musician. 'Queen Of All Ears'...is his crowning achievement....He is a composer of depth and verve, and a saxophone player of rare originality, fluency and elliptical grace."
- Time Out London 1998

"...a sophisticated mix of the tribal and urbane, with snake charmer sax lines and juju rhythms framing the bursts of noirish lyricism and hepcat humor."
-Billboard Magazine 1998

"This is amazing music by a unit that has become one of the best in the world."
-Option Magzine 1998

"Make no mistake, John Lurie is cool...His music is cool, too...His newest efforts, Queen Of All Ears..and Fishing With John, are two of his very best."
-Esquire 1998

"...Lurie is a gifted musician and coposer, capable of drawing together styles as far removed as Klezmer, juju and minimalism to create pieces which are cahallenging and moving at the same time."
-The Times UK 1998

"...Treading the highwire between composition and spontaneity... complex musical themes that will slither into your subconscious with a subtlety that will leave even the most jaded jazzbo mesmerized."
-New York Press 1998

"I love the Lounge Lizards"
-Virgin Megastore product manager Bobby Hall

"...the brass section sounds like a conference of birds, the strings like bubbling lava and the rhythm like steady breeze through a tree in bloom."
-Paper Magazine

"...as cutting edge as one might expect from a soul-smitten alto saxist with one foot in the dowtown art scene...and the other in the underground music scene."
-Time Out New York

"...smart music"
-L.A. Weekly 1998

"...unique, sumptous, soulful and exquisite"
-Bomb Magazine 1998

"...Lurie's made this band a place for a few of downtown's finer players to shine in an evocative, lyrical enviroment."
-SF Weekly 1998

"...Most notable-and perhaps spiritual-work."
-SF Weekly 1998

"Elegant, inventive avant-jazz"
-The Observer UK 1998

"...changing the shape of modern jazz...aural osmosis has never been this perfect."
-Alternative Press 1998

"phenomenal"
-Aquarian Weekly 1998

"A superb, mesmeric work of beauteous and angular, cooly impressionistic, avant jazz noir."
-Time Out London Crtic's Choice 1998

"...roll from moments of prayer like intensity-Coltranesque flourishes over African pulsing- to Charles Mingus doing the music for scary Czech cartoons...It's far and away the best and, yes, most spiritual recording Lurie has issued with the Lizards."
-The Guardian UK 1998

"...a sophisticated, diverse composer"
-BBC Music Magazine 1998

"(4 stars)"
- Echoes Magazine