"Jon Nelson performed a really intense
and committed version of the (Berio) Sequenza for trumpet
and resonance piano, technically amazing and with a great sense
of acoustic space". La Jornada, Mexico
City, August 1998
"A tour de force here is Jon Nelson's
trumpet solo in (Frank Zappa's) Little House, which convincingly
evokes the writhing guitar improvisation of the maestro himself." De Volkskrant, Amsterdam, November 1996
"Jon Nelson's sendup of Elvis mania,
Song for a Dead King, is the highlight of the disc (Prime
Meridian) - funny, intelligent, and pointed." Stereophile,
1995
"Arranger / trumpet player Jon Nelson
demands a lot from his colleagues - no one's technical skills
are in doubt after a run-through of one of his arrangements (Zappa
and Hendrix)." CD Review, March 1994
"Stravinsky and Babbitt aside, the
best composer here after Zappa and Beefheart is Nelson himself:
his Song for a Dead King (the monarch being Elvis Presley)
is in the spirit of Zappa both in its derision and in its exuberant
solo writing. Paterson 2:35 is catchy, joyous and Latin." Gramophone, April 1996
"Lead trumpeter Jon Nelson's Fanfare
for Nothing and Sleepless, both written during bouts
of insomnia, sparkled with energy." Washington
Post, March 1996
"Although these works sounded familiar,
the rank of difficulty flew up by the minute to collapse in a
capricious performance of The Black Page full of mean,
fast, small notes. Trumpet player Jon Nelson played them with
admirable ease, which won great enthusiasm from the audience
who asked the Ensemble back for two encores." Brabants
Dagblad, The Netherlands November 1995
