Press Quotes


(about kinetic hues) "Ari Hoenig and Jean Michel Pilc throw ideas around the room like rockets and missiles, as they work out in the intimate performance space at Fat Cat with a live audience to spur them on. Their music rains fire all night long…Ari Hoenig and his musical partners forge a seamless bridge that is designed to carry Jazz’s modern mainstream away from the ordinary and forward to new horizons."
-All About Jazz


(about kinetic hues) "An intimate view of contemporary jazz in the process of coming to life."
-Los Angeles Times


"Ari Hoenig is one of the most maniacally obsessive, spasmodic and musical drummers in jazz."
-Jazz Times


"Ari Hoenig is a Magicien!"
-Batteur Magazine


"Ari Hoenig's Kinetic Hues (Smalls Records) is fantastically filmed and grippingly performed
-David Adler. Letterland


"Ari Hoenig, a disconcerting phenomenon of the drums"
- Jazzman Magazine


(about Life of a day) "The worldwide botherhood of the drums is hereby kicked in the pants! Ari Hoenig’s work in the ensembles of Jean-Michel Pilc, Seamus Blake, Jonathan Kreisberg, Pat Martino, and Wayne Krantz has extended the art of jazz drumming into the future. He’s done this via telepathic interaction with soloists, forging his own brand of swing and exerting an absolutely uncanny ability to mine melodicism from the kit"
-All About Jazz


(about the painter) "An album of exceptional quality performed by a close-knit group of phenomenally talented, deeply passionate musicians, The Painter is a must. See them live to experience the intensity, listen at home to discover the subtlety"
-All About Jazz


"Hoenig is a wild card as a drummer, always listening hard, shading and tweaking his responses as if running a department of sound effects."
-Philadelphia Inquirer

"Pliability is the outfits calling card-any one of the drummers elaborate constructions has the capability of morphing east or west. The specifics of the interplay are just as intriguing as the music's larger personality. A great example of an utterly vital NYC jazz band."
-Village Voice


"Ari Hoenig likes to get physical. He rubs saliva on his drums, jabs his elbows into them and pokes them like a mad genie. His albums (Time Travels, The Life of a Day) show a drummer in love with his instrument's sound, a man who has an ingenious ability to make music with anything he touches"
-Philadelphia Weekly


"The city’s hottest young jazz drummer delivers such a powerful message that drums may never
be the same."
"Ari Hoenig is an underground sensation"
- John McCormick, Flavorpill

"A remarkable player with an uncommon penchant for melodicism on the kit, Hoenig has already put out two amazing solo drum recordings in which he plays the heads to familiar jazz standards by playing strictly skins, shells and cymbals with nothing more than sticks, brushes, mallets, hands and elbows.."
–Bill Milkowski Jazz Times

"Among the young jazz drummers recently on
the jazz scene Ari Hoenig is the most original
and inventive."
– Ferid Bonnour, Drummer Magazine

"Drummer Ari Hoenig is an unalloyed pleasure,
matching rhythmic verve with a keen ear for melody"
- Steve Smith, Jazziz Magazine

"Pure Melodicism on the kit" "Musicians like Ari
make jazz viewing the pleasure that it is"
- Phil Dipietro, All About Jazz

"Hoenig wowed jazz fans when he came here with
Kenny Werner", "Hoenig keeps pushing the limits"
- Barry Davis, Jerusalem Post

(about Jean Michel Pilc trio) "they create some
of the most thrilling dynamics of the day"
- Macnie, The Village Voice

"American Drummer steals the showat the
Chivas Jazz Festival" "alternates between
delicacy and fury on the drums"
-Jotabe Medeiros, San Paulo Press

"Ari Hoenig’s drumming is wonderfully creative,
his solos are impressive more for musicality and
invention than for the chops on display"
- David Wayne, Jazz Weekly Reviews

"expansive technique, propulsive time and
deep musicality" "his style, characterized
by a crisp attack and quick attentive reflexes,
adds texture, depth and time"
Nate Chinen – Philadelphia city Paper

"Ari Hoenig is surprising many with his playing,
listening and Virtuosity. A name to remember"
- Anne Legrand, Citizen Jazz

"Hoenig has a fast, light touch and he's consistently and successfully creative"
- John Schu Jazz Times

"Ari Hoenig is drumming's newest resourceful shining light, especially on bop forms-his drums dance and flirt with the soloist like few you'll hear. Sweet and Lovely has him coaxing melody out of every available surface on the kit in subtle comfortable ways"
- Phil Dipietro , All About Jazz

(about Pat Martino group) "I loved it with the electrifying combination of Ari Hoenig's ferocious drums with Pat Martino's electric leaps across octives and tempos. Hoenig crashed his drums, in warlike fashion, his drums and cymbals, with versatility and daring aggresion."
- Dr. Roberta E. Zlokower, exploredance.com