What The Critics Are Saying:

“Chasin’ the Blues, is a pleasant trip into a happy yesteryear!”

Harvey Barkan
The American Rag

“…if you’re feeling whimsical when one of your jazz pals is visiting, you might pick a track from this CD (Harlem Mad) and put it on, unannounced and unidentified . . . when the eyebrows go up and the friend wants to know exactly what that music (newly encountered) is, see how far you can go with a straight face, “Oh, that’s an unissued 1930 Champion by an otherwise unknown Chicago band,” or “That’s something they dug out of the Savoy vaults from 1947. Like it?”

Glenn Crytzer and the Syncopators are just that good, just that swinging.” (full article)

Michael Steinman
Jazz Lives