Raul Da Gama, LatinJazzNet, October 2021, Canada
“[…] The dry, one word title Ontology is transformed in dramatic manner by the fourteen evocative songs in this repertoire. And in doing so Miss Amed emerges as an artist of the first order. Her voice is gloriously dark, generous, big and beautifully controlled, and impeccably throughout its phenomenal range. This lends itself perfectly to […]
Raul Da Gama, LatinJazzNet, October 2021, Canada
Uno de los mejores álbumes de jazz de 2021“El séptimo álbum de la cantante y compositora oriunda de Buenos Aires y radicada en los Estados Unidos, Roxana Amed nos presenta una exquisita y evocadora colección de 14 canciones”
Erwin Pérez, El Nuevo Herald, September 2021, US
“A touch of class to Latin music.”
Domingo Banda, La Prensa de Houston, September 2021, US
“Roxana Amed, a heart that beats to the rhythm of jazz. A unifying force.”
Winston Cook-Wilson, Chamber Music America, September 2021, US
“[…] knotty juxtapositions pop up on almost every track on the album, evidencing Amed’s continual hunger to expand her stylistic range.”
Allen Morrison, JazzTimes, September 2021, US
“Amed’s own music can be meditative or fiery, often somber, sometimes incantatory. […] Her lyrics are lush with poetic evocations of the natural world, images of lovers and moonlight, and sometimes a hint of menace; they have a Spanish soulfulness, whether written in Spanish or English.”
Fernando Ríos, ArgentJazz, August 2021, Argentina
“Undeniable quality that endures and demands to be listened.”
Keith Black, Winnipeg Free Press, August 2021, Canada
★★★★½“A constant surprise. A full-out treasure.”
Luca D’Alessandro, Jazz’N’More, July/August 2021, Switzerland
★★★★ A Must-listen“Dreamy art, an essential album.”
César Pradines, Clarín, June 2021, Argentina
“Strong emotional commitment. Captivating expressiveness”[…]“An emotional performer without sentimentality; a singer who manages to modify the limits of jazz without losing contact with the vocal tradition of the genre.”