“Mr. Crump is a bassist with a broad stylistic frame, at home in both the avant-garde and a more traditional framework. With his band Rhombal, which just released an excellent self-titled album, he opts not to draw any distinctions between those poles”
The New York Times
Read More“While this is clearly Crump’s album, it’s also a blend of four distinct personalities, each able to navigate rapidly mutating tunes”
Downbeat
Read More“As a composer, the Memphis native is top notch, possibly one of the best in jazz today for his consistent brilliance”
NextBop
Read More“These are, in sum, sincere and poised accounts, fitting tributes to the exciting and faultless character of composers and their music.”
Jazz da Gama
Read More“Such loose but precise music is difficult to execute well and the fact that the compositions are also uniformly excellent simply adds to the disc’s overall effect”
NYC Jazz Record
Read More“guitarist Mary Halvorson and bassist Stephan Crump have perfected the art of inhabiting different worlds simultaneously”
NYC Jazz Record
Read More“the tinkling timbral icicles that coalesce at end of ‘Erie’ touch on the sublime”
Dusted in Exile
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