February 17, 2021
Live at Bird's Eye Basel was recorded in Switzerland in during a European tour supporting the release of Mareike's debut album, Metropolis Paradise.
January 19, 2021
Reviewer Peter Margasak says the album, "immediately grabs the listener."
December 16, 2020
Dave Sumner says, "Morris and Webber made the big band album of the year."
December 15, 2020
Will Layman says, "The band is given lots of room and lots of responsibility, and each member repays what Douglas asks of them."
December 14, 2020
Will Layman says: "Webber and Morris' expanded range of options breaks new ground while referencing a grand tradition."
December 7, 2020
Reviewer Ted Parkinson says, "Urban(e)’s strength is in Fahie’s subtlety where his arrangements are always true to his source material."
December 4, 2020
The album was included in Giovanni Russonello's list of ten outstanding albums from this year.
November 18, 2020
Writer Dan Bilawsky gives the album 4 1/2 stars!
November 11, 2020
John Shand calls it, "a Douglas album, with his love of mixing surging rhythms, angular lines and sections that float by like white clouds across a summer sky."
November 9, 2020
Bandcamp says: "Emi Makabe’s communion of modern jazz and Japanese folk makes for an auspicious debut."
October 23, 2020
The song features vocalist Sofia Rei as well as solos by trombonist Matt McDonald and alto saxophonist Michael Thomas.