Holober has quite a pedegree — as a pianist with John Abercrombie and Dave Liebman, among others, as a composer-orchestrator with the Vanguard and Stockholm Jazz orchestras — which this Gotham Jazz Orchestra release should considerably enhance. Recorded in 1996 but only just issued, this documents a powerhouse big band with stellar solosists in trumpeters Scott Wendholt and Joe Magnarelli, saxophonists Time Ries, Charles Pillow and Jon Gordon, and a rhythmn section which, besides Holober, beneifts from the presence of bassist Ron Carter. Holober's charts are packed with incident, their contrapuntal ways reminscient of Bill Holman, even if the voicings tend to mix sections more. They're also beautifully executed by a band moulded into a precise swinging unit by Holober.

— Roy Comiskey
© Irish Times, November 26, 2004