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Texas Highways - The Travel Magazine of Texas, (11.08)
Heavenly Music:
The annual Jazz at St. James Festival, November 14 -
16, in Austin, will feature 3 days of ex-cellent live jazz programming, including trumpet player Jeff Lofton
(right), legendary trombonist Curtis Fuller with saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman, pianist James Polk, and vocalist Pamela Hart. Sunday jazz masses feature the Leah Zeger Trio, Newman and Fuller, Buscando El Monte, and The Jeff Lofton Quintet. For additional details, check http://jazzatstjames.org or www.stjamesaustin.org; or call 512/926-6339.
(photo by dhillsphotography.com at Central Market)
Austin American-Statesman / Austin360.com Best Bets (09.21.09) "The Jeff Lofton Quartet provides the soundtrack
for your easy Sunday mornings every week."
Austinist Show Preview: Jeff Lofton Quartet Jazz Brunch @ Waterloo Ice House Austinist.com (08.08.2008)
... Lofton's brand of jazz is in the Davis/Gillespie/Coltrane vein, sultry and sensual as a summer afternoon. Since relocating to Austin last year, Lofton's had a good run of it, playing to standing-room only crowds at the Elephant Room, gaining notoriety in the local scene in part for last year's well-received Miles Davis tribute, All Miles 1950's, which he and the Jeff Lofton Quintet brought first to the Victory Grill and then the Elephant room...
The Good Life: A Monthly Journal of Austin Stories (06.2008)
"In Search of Austin Jazz" by Rush Evans
A trumpet playing jazzman is delivering Thelonious Monk’s “In Walked Bud” with melodic moments from “Blue Skies” showing up as jazz variations, as spontaneous as the patches of blue peeking through the clouds on this gloriously grey Sunday afternoon in Central Park. It’s the kind of overcast day made for the subdued musical introspections of Monk and Miles Davis — understated, engaging, challenging yet soothing. But this is not Woody Allen’s Manhattan. Central Park in Austin is the location of the Central Market grocery, on whose patio Jeff Lofton is playing a gig in preparation for an upcoming show at the famed Elephant Room that will celebrate the music of Miles Davis, the man who inspired him to play jazz trumpet in the first place. Click here to read the full story (pdf). Click here to visit The Good Life Web site.
Daily Texan, Austin, Texas (04.28.08)
“Local performer channels Miles Davis” by Jack Frink
"...channels Miles Davis. ...Throughout the night, Lofton replicated Davis' trademark style very well, but still managed to bring his own personality to the music. …an expert example of how jazz music is always reinventing itself." Click here to read the full story.
Austin American-Statesman, Austin, Texas
"Listen up, Miles Davis fans. ...the virtuoso studied music composition and jazz at the University of South Carolina… with decades of experience under his belt … Lofton recently relocated to Austin where his smooth jazz sounds can be heard as he leads the melodic Jeff Lofton Group."
KUT 90.5 FM, Texas Music Matters’ Austin Music Minute, Austin, Texas (05.30.08)
"If you've not yet been to a performance at The Elephant Room, it is highly advised that you make time to do so. And seeing the Jeff Lofton Quintet would be a great introduction to this revered jazz venue. The Jeff Lofton Quintet (they've performed as a quartet previously) combines a mix of jazz standards and original material written by trumpeter Jeff Lofton into the show." Click here for the complete text.
The Brownsville Herald, Brownsville, Texas (01.03.08)
“Austin trumpeteer makes RGV debut tonight” by Miriam Ramirez
"Critics in Austin give trumpeter Jeff Lofton serious kudos for his blend of the old school and new styles of jazz, comparing him to the likes of Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and John Coltrane." Click here for the complete article.
Free Times, Columbia, South Carolina
"Jazz Therapy draws on the old-school be-bop styles of Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie while also employing some of the adventurous tendencies and structures of John Coltrane."
The State, Columbia, South Carolina
"Jeff's trumpet flies onto tracks like singing birds into morning sunshine. … One of the best trumpet players in South Carolina."