★★★★★
Swiss keyboardist Alex Bugnon has loyal fans in the tightly controlled smooth-jazz niche but not the name recognition of, say, David Benoit or Brian Culbertson. It's unfortunate that Bugnon gets lost in the shuffle. His ninth CD is filled with great pop-jazz songs, but Bugnon's all about the melody, with minimal flash, which may explain his obscurity...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
Throughout his career, I have always enjoyed keyboardist Alex Bugnon. He has always shown me a different side of smooth jazz that can only be his style. His newest CD Southern Living continues that special style in a different kind of setting. Instead of using various kinds of keyboards in the production stage, he keeps to the piano and Fender Rhodes, which helped him release a CD with special Bugnon magic...
- www.jazzreview.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
I have been a fan of Alex Bugnon's, since his debut album "Love Season," released in 1989; so I was very excited to get his seventh CD "Soul Purpose". I could listen to" Yearning For Your Love" over and over and over... Bugnon was the musician that turned me on to the possibilities of piano in jazz, before him, I was strictly a horns enthusiast.The 14 tunes on Soul Purpose come in crystal waterfalls of sound with a backwash of funk...
- www.jazzreview.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Don't be fooled by the innocent photo of Alex Bugnon on the cover of Free. This album is anything but innocent as these musicians explore depths, ranges and exciting tones during eight tunes on another notable CD. Soaring to the Top 40 on the R&B chart and the top pop chart with his debut album, Love Season, in 1989, Alex Bugnon followed his initial success with eight top selling albums as he mixes that feeling of delightful soul and mysterious street...
- www.jazzreview.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Alex Bugnon's commercial pop-jazz output of the early to mid-1990s wasn't fantastic, but it did indicate that he had some potential as both a pianist/keyboardist and a composer. Generally more substantial than most of the other albums that smooth jazz stations played in 1991, the uneven, erratic 107 in the Shade is far from a gem, but has its moments...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Even the funkiest funkateers take a breather now and then, and after so many releases slamming up the electric pace, it's fairly refreshing to find Alex Bugnon telling his Tales from the Bright Side with such admirable restraint. Make no mistake, there is bounce in between those flashy keyboard runs, but it tends to enhance the melodic invention, rather than decimate or obliterate it...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Alex Bugnon has long given Phillippe Saisse a run for his money as keyboardist most willing to blend the widest variety of synth sounds and effects beneath a gorgeous acoustic piano style. His Narada Jazz debut ...As Promised is his first recording in several years, but the buoyant song remains pretty much the same; retro soul effects, brief but memorable brass section flourishes, spacey synth sounds, and throbbing basslines pave the way for a powerful return...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Montreux born keyboardist Alex Bugnon was one of 1989's most impressive newcomers, and his debut album Love Season was so R&B; influenced that it received a Soul Train Award nomination. "The way my first record was received gave me great confidence going into the studio to record the second one," he said of the mellow yet funky follow-up Head Over Heels -- which is mostly uptempo and features some of the liveliest acoustic soloing of that year...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
The title of the Swiss-born composer/keyboardist's third Narada Jazz recording reflects the down-home spirit of his experience for the first time in Atlanta performing in ensemble with some of that city's greatest musicians, as well as an exhilarating shift from the heavy urban sensibilities of his New York-recorded 2001 hit, Soul Purpose...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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