Press

“Tony Dagradi is the optimal front man.  His singing tenor and soprano saxophone style is a compendium of jazz history, blending the verbose blues of Cannonball Adderley with more current “outside” trends.”
- James Rozzi, Jazziz

“Dagradi is one of the best unacknowledged tenors around.”
- Mike Fish, Wired Magazine

“A fiercely compelling improviser (and) an accomplished composer.”
- Bill Milkowski, Downbeat

“…spiritually intense tenor.” – Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune

“One gets the impression, when listening to Dagradi, of being in the presence of a great storyteller and the music asserts that feeling.  More than anything else Dagradi gives the essence of freedom and fire without a feeling of too much looseness.  Also, it is important to mention Dagradi’s strong feel for rhythm.  He makes it his own, including a great control of dynamics…a highly gifted  and uncompromising saxophonist.”
- Tim Price, Saxophone Journal

“Dagradi plays with exuberance and power.” – Cadence

“Dagradi’s technique on soprano and especially tenor is evocative and exultant.  Like so many tenor players, Dagradi speaks of a period when he was ‘totally immersed in Trane.’  To his credit, the…saxophonist manages to capture the spiritual strength Coltrane so elegantly epitomized.”
- Norman Provizer, Jazziz