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The Unforgettable Sounds of Esquivel is playing in 7,000 Starbucks stores world-wide via licensing deal with playnetwork.com.
2010
"
…exquisite attention to details…"
Clive Davis
"… a perfect cocktail…of chamber, jazz, classical, and world music…"
Additional Highlights
(Concert Review) "The musicians were top notch. The sound was perfect."
2 of the Top 10 Records for 2011
"…[Third River Rangoon] shows off O'Neill's serious jazz and chamber-music writing"
“…[The] Orchestrotica, whether in quartet or 23-piece big-band formation, leaves other retro ensembles in the fairy stardust…”
“2 absolute must-haves for any exotica fan, these first CDs in Mr. Ho's new series, "Exotica For Modern living", make a welcome addition to the pantheon of modern exotica classics”
"… something for that hard-to-shop-for eccentric on your Christmas shopping list…"
Local & Online Publications
(Concert Review) "From the first chord…the room was flooded with the spirit that characterizes the lunatic Space Age Pop sound."
2012
2012 Best World Music Act
2012 Boston Music Awards Nominee: International Artist of the Year
Top CDs of 2010
Jazz Favorite for 2010
"…a serenely intoxicating blend of third stream chamber sounds…" -Dan McClenaghan
"…borrowing themes from Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, Mr. Ho has created his own rigorous classical-jazz hybrid. Are you listening, Keith Lockhart?…"
"…The Orchestrotica, however, are crack musicians and bring a chamber jazz sensibility suggesting what the Modern Jazz Quartet might have sounded like had they lightened up and ordered a round of mai tais…"
10 Favourite New Releases from 2011
:…the exotica sound of the 50's has been updated, restyled, and lovingly rebooted into a freer new age of now…this quartet has style…"
“…so spot on…mind-blowing…so impressive…” (about The Unforgettable Sounds of Esquivel
“…a really nice mood piece…I'm in love with it…” (about Third River Rangoon
