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A duo with more swing than a golf club. As lovesome as a Tuck and Patti duet. Flute flows like water, effortless and fun. ★★★★ All About Jazz

“It is impossible not to be seduced by Lori Bell’s flute playing and one is often struck by visions of “following her all the way into the rock at Hamelin”. Such is the mesmerizing power of her playing that she can – and has – turned even the blues into something magnetic conjuring some of the freshest and most daring feats of imagination to such a degree of genius that as a compendium of flute technique she has no rivals”.  Raul da Gama

“Bell brings her inventive and subtle instrumental skill to material that is innately earthy with Bell’s interpretations finding the richness and color inherent in the genre.  Satterfield is an ideal collaborator, providing accompaniment that cushions, counterpoints and drives Bell.  This is another recommended album, one that is filled with first-rate music that can be enjoyed on many levels”.
UK Jazz Journal ****

“Lori Bell is accompanied by guitarist Ron Satterfield and his high and lonesome voice which he uses – often with tremulous delicacy – to conjure both, the unfortunate and state of mind that attends the blues as well as the state of heady redemption that goes with the feeling of being freed from its clutches. There’s also the fact that there is enough swing here to enable the dancer in us all to cut the rug to shreds before falling into the arms of a beloved as Lori Bell cries on “Istanblue”. This is, quite simply music to die for”.   Raul da Gama

Lori’s improvisations are a sublime complement of speed and grace, with a skill to interpret material, reshape melodies, and play tricky and shifting tempos. Her technique is meteoric, but the sweetness of the music is never sacrificed in service to mere virtuosity.  Bell’s genius for inventing melodic conceptions in seamless succession fuses with Satterfield’s amazingly adroit guitar work. Eschewing solos, he instead switches between different comping requirements with ease, verve, and style. He gleefully alternates between straight up walking bass lines and shuffle patterns to the subdivided syncopations of bossa nova, and shows the dulcet intuition of a pianist on more somber material. Ted Burke – The Troubadour

Lori Bell is no stranger to music, whether the genre is jazz or classical; she’s one of the finest virtuoso flutists, composers, arrangers, educators and producers of our times. Bell has a marvelous gift for combining classical phrasing with bebop timing, in both the melodic and solo lines. Satterfield’s guitar work and vocals — a combination of humming, scatting and verbal lines — blend perfectly throughout.  They’re all swinging.  Jazz Scan
 
Bell exhibits a gorgeous, liquid tone and luxuriant vibrato over the manic comping and wickedly swinging bass line of Satterfield.  He is a veritable groove machine, a true “rhythm guitarist,” and a marvelous singer.  McCoy Tyner’s “Blues on the Corner,” features some of Bell’s most dramatic improvising on the disc and a Satterfield scat episode that shifts effortlessly from Latin to blues and back again resulting in a truly intoxicating mélange and brilliant summary.   Robert Bush

These two rip it up! It’s all there —beautiful melodies from Lori and Ron’s groove is contagious.  I’m a huge fan!  Peter Sprague
 
Lori, you are THE player of the jazz flute from San Diego.  Going beyond that, you're a wonderful flutist and musician for our world.   Nelson Rangell
 
"Yeah baby, all blues, day in, day out. In soul to put a spring in your step.” 4 of 5 stars  All About Jazz
 
“Lori Bell and Ron Satterfield mix guitar, flutes and voice on this gorgeous duet album”.  Jazz Weekly
 
Blue(s) - Nominated for Best Jazz Album - San Diego Music Awards, 2018