★★★★★
"Powerfully polished" is the term that immediately comes to mind upon listening to Jayme Stone's latest body of work. The two-time Juno-winning composer and banjo virtuoso immediately dispels hackneyed connotations of what banjo music represents. Call it musical fusion -- a bit of folk, chamber and jazz here, a splash of West African melodies there -- what represents is an intriguing, aurally satisfying endeavour steeped in symphonic sensibilities...
- exclaim.ca
2013-10-01
★★★★★
Oddly, banjo is not the most prominent instrument on Juno Award-winning banjo man Jayme Stone's orchestral, instrumental fourth album, The Other Side Of The Air. But even when Stone's banjo is in the foreground, it tends to shape-shift in unexpected ways, at times sounding like a guitar or mandolin. The first part of the album was inspired by Stone's travels to far-flung locales, while the second, written by cellist/bassist Andrew Downing, is a chamber symphony banjo concerto...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-07-25
★★★★★
Jayme Stone, banjo player and composer from Canada, recently won the 2009 Juno Award for Best Music Album of the Year for Africa to Appalachia (Self Published, 2008), a collaboration with musicians from Africa. Stone travelled to Africa to trace the roots of banjo and the characteristics of early styles, which haven't yet made it to the Americas...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Jayme Stone plays banjo, he has a very distinctive style, he is a composer, an educator, a bandleader, a world traveler and a fresh new spirit on the contemporary music scene. He effortlessly, or so it seems, blends many musical genres, he is as comfortable playing a traditional blue grass tune as he is a jazz standard and then with out pause - launching into a heated jam session with influences of other worlds...
- www.jazzreview.com
2009-06-08
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