“Every once in a while a CD comes along that so captures a reviewer’s attention it’s almost as if there aren’t enough superlatives to describe it. This is the case with guitarist Roch Lockyer’s first CD, Nondirectional.”
Thomas Erdmann (Professor Emeritus)
JazzReview.com
“Lockyer is a fine player above and beyond his technique and ideas...Lockyer enters with some nice jazz chords and a series of catchy skittering riffs executed at breakneck speed, forming an impressive display...This is intricate music performed with an ease that disguises it’s difficulty...Lockyer has surrounded himself, and his composition, with a highly skilled unit that can play music of high caliber no sweat .”
Walter Kolosky
(Biographer, John McLaughlin)
Jazz.com
Frank met Django:
"BY TACKLING THE VOCAL STYLINGS OF SINATRA AND COUPLING THEM WITH THE GUITAR WORK OF REINHARDT, LOCKYER CREATES A STYLE OF JAZZ THAT IS ALMOST COMPLETELY NEW."
DODIE MILLER-GOULD CRITIC POPULAR MUSIC AND CULTURE, 1920S JAZZ, AND BLUES
NONDIRECTIONAL:
BY GUITARIST ROCH LOCKYER, IS A MORE ECLECTIC EFFORT. MOST OF IT IS CRISP PROGRESSIVE JAZZ-ROCK WITH FOLK INFLUENCES BUT THERE ARE ALSO LEFT TURNS INTO FUNK ON “HUTCH,” BOSSA NOVA ON “HERE NOW BUT FOREVER,” AND HEAVIER MODERN JAZZ ON “MONK’S HOUSE.” LOCKYER IS AN IMPRESSIVELY VERSATILE PLAYER WITH A SENSE OF SPACE AND CLARITY REMINISCENT OF JIM HALL OR PAT METHENY AND HE SOUNDS FINE DIALOGUING WITH EXCELLENT MUSICIANS LIKE PIANIST ART LANDE AND TRUMPETER RON MILES. “MELANCHOLIES,” A DELICATE WEAVE OF GUITAR, TRUMPET, PIANO, AND KALIMBA, AND “QUINTENNAISANCE,” WITH ITS ROLLING GUITAR AND VIBES GROOVE, SOUND LIKE VINTAGE GARY BURTON TRACKS. LOCKYER MASTERMINDS A FRISKY AND SMART SET OF MUSIC HERE
JEROME WILSON, CADENCE MAGAZINE
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