Down Beat
"One of the most lyrical musicians working today...singularly personal and arresting and one
of contemporary music's few genuine poets... Gregory's daring, darting vocal is so serene yet
intense that one is hard-put naming a contemporary vocalist of similar grace and power."
--Down Beat
Rolling Stone
“By the time he was twenty-one he was already one of the most original jazz guitarist
to emerge since the Sixties.” --Rolling Stone
Michael Gregory Jacksons’ “Heart and Center, with it’s completely original synthesis
of influences ranging from Stravinsky to Duke Ellington to Hendrix to Earth, Wind,
and Fire is unlike anything that’s been heard before.” - Robert Palmer - Rolling Stone
Q-Magazine
“Gregory has that rare combination of virtuosity and versatility, able to play the guitar whiz...
then slip easily into hugely commercial cuts. Michael Gregory is, quite simply, the business.”
--Q
Trouser Press
"Take Bowie's sophistication, add Prince's flamboyance, and mix with plenty of originality.
Michael Gregory writes crisp vibrant songs, and sings them like it's a matter of life and death."
--Trouser Press
Spin Magazine
“The songs...realize Michael Gregory's own theoretical musings about the fertile musical
possibilities created when applying blues and jazz sensibilities to rock.”
--Spin
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The Advocate
"Michael Gregory's high tenor voice calls to mind Smokey Robinson, Sting or Ben Harper
as it flows with his guitar riffs...He doesn't back away from the difficult and sometimes raw
themes connected with love and loss. Lays bare the sinews of human emotion. Gregory's
honesty and hypnotic sound mixes are unabashedly mellow."
--The Advocate
Music Review
“A highly distinctive and beautiful CD of originals...his own unique style that synthesizes jazz,
pop and soul...filled with romantic longing and smoldering passion....”
--Music Revue
Sunday Republican
“Gregory's voice recalls vintage Prince, Curtis Mayfield and Aaron Neville...
There's little doubt that Gregory remains a stringman supreme.”
--Sunday Republican
Record
“At a certain point Gregory comes spinning out of an emotional wringer, and takes a beautifully
berserk guitar solo. The dynamics are unbeatably exhilarating.”
--Record
Metroland
"Towards the Sun picks up with graceful aplomb as if there were no gap in time at all.
While fans of soulful ’70s and ’80s artists (Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, etc.) will find
easy entrance into Gregory’s music, it’s also filled with subtle surprises that acknowledge
his background in the gleefully iconoclastic fringes. All is not as it appears, with layering
and compositional flourishes embedded in the songs, revealing themselves in slyly gentle
ways. From the graceful modulations of “If I Only Had a Minute” to the thick guitar dazzle
of “Love’s Parade,” this is an album filled with rich singing, inventive playing, and alluring,
mesmerizing and cliché-free hooks."
--Metroland.Net
