...His writing is fresh, personal, sonically meticulous, and more than anything, written by a great musician for great musicians...Within merely a measure, he can shift from densely folkloric, polyrhythmic Afro-Cuban or Brazilian textures to transparent and elusively shifting timbres reminiscent of the French Impressionists, Bartók, Neo-Classic Stravinsky, and of course, the more pensive side of Stan Kenton and Gil Evans...— Richard Boukas