JazzTimes writes... "Setting a divergent path right from the start, trumpeter Tony D'Aveni... with guests...prove their salt on the remake of Coltrane's classic "Giant Steps". D'Aveni exhibits pleasing tone and technique, especially on the popular Van Heusen hit, "Darn that Dream," where his solo glimmers in the quartet setting. Garzone and Crook team up with the quartet again on the finale, D'Aveni's Knockwood Lockwood, a whorling take on the title suggestive of a childhood rhyming game (but more likely an inside pun with the bassist). Their actions, however, are no child's play and the entire session is a delectable treat for the listener". 
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"Both D'Aveni's trumpet and flugelhorn is clean-lined, uncluttered, and sturdy". -Bob Young (Jazziz & Boston Herald)
"One hell- of- an album".
- Bobby Shew
"With precision and control he (D'Aveni) negotiates the convoluted series of harmonic changes (Giant Steps) like
Miles flitting through traffic in a Ferrari".
- Chet Williamson
"I just got Tony D'Aveni's Trpt. Jazz
Techinque books- they're great!!!"
- Bryan Davis (Leeds, UK)
"Sounds like Coltrane on Trumpet"
- Bob Moses
"Fastest trumpet player in the world"
- John McNeil
"My favorite trumpet player"
- Felipe Salles
"Tony D'Aveni is a brilliant trumpet player whose sound crackles with the fire of Lee Morgan" - Worcester Magazine
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