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Reviews & Quotes

Selected coverage, organized by album, plus quotes drawn from a career of reviews and features.

Laszlo Gardony, New York photo session
CLOSE CONNECTION · 2022
Down Beat Magazine — Best Albums of 2023
All About Jazz — Dan Bilawsky's review, June 2023
Down Beat — Brian Morton's four-star review, January 2023
PopMatters — John Garratt's review, December 2022
New York City Jazz Record — Pierre Giroux's review, December 2022
Jazz Espresso, Italy — Interview with Ivano Rossato, March 2023
Jazz Journal, U.K. — Michael Tucker's review, March 2023
ReMusic Hi-Fi (Italy) — Riccardo Talamazzi's review, February 2023
Music Frames (Netherlands) — Mattie Poels' review, January 2023
Step Tempest — Richard Kamins' review, December 2022
LA MARSEILLAISE · 2019
Jazzwise, UK — Stuart Nicholson's review, March 2020
New York City Jazz Record — Donald Elfman's review, October 2019
Patriot Ledger — Best Jazz of 2019
Arts Fuse — Michael Ullman's review, October 2019
SERIOUS PLAY · 2017
Boston Globe — Top 10 Jazz CDs of 2017
Arts Fuse — Michael Ullman, Top 10 Jazz CDs of 2017
All About Jazz — Dan Bilawsky's review, July 2017
CLARITY · 2013
Jazz Times — Bill Beuttler's review, July 2013
Los Angeles Times — Chris Barton's review, July 2013
Boston Globe — Jon Garelick's review, April 2013
All About Jazz — Mark Corroto's review, May 2013

Select Quotes

Great pianist.

— DAVE BRUBECK

“Jazz is a very universal music and Laszlo is a great musician … good musicians meet on a common ground.”

— DAVE LIEBMAN

“He’s one of the best musicians that we’ve ever had here at Berklee.”

— GARY BURTON

“The trio … is among the most seasoned, soulful, sensitive, and swinging groups around.”

— KEVIN LOWENTHAL, BOSTON GLOBE

“His genius is in making complex ideas simple — another kind of liberation.”

— JON GARELICK, BOSTON PHOENIX

Recommended by the Village Voice Jazz Consumer Guide: A (Highest Rating)

— FRANCIS DAVIS, VILLAGE VOICE

“A consistently inventive player who combines an ear for melody with a strong rhythmic sense.”

— LARRY KATZ, BOSTON HERALD

“(Gardony) strikes a nice balance between being genuinely expressive and readily accessible. **** (four stars)”

— BILL MILKOWSKI, DOWN BEAT

“A sparkling jazz trio date … he blends the diatonic lyricism of Keith Jarrett with the modal and polyrhythmic vitality of his native land.”

— KEYBOARD MAGAZINE

“Immensely gifted Hungarian-born pianist … a classicist with a darkly romantic streak.”

— GENE KALBACHER, HOT HOUSE

“A superior jazz improviser who infuses his post-bop music with references to his Hungarian folk roots.”

— SCOTT YANOW, ALL MUSIC GUIDE

“Bill Evans to the next level.”

— DAVID PRINCE, THE NEW MEXICAN