Flow in psychology means oneness between you and your doing. Flow in Noah Howard's music means high-density: this is exceeding all boundaries of categorization. A complete magic circle cast by New Orleans born Noah Howard who has travelled from his roots Dixieland, Gospel and Free Jazz through the wonderland the worlds music and funk. Listen to Noah Howard, Free-Jazz-legend of the sixties, resuscitating his favorite musical terrain in the 90's. Spirited, sensual and energetic. Noah Howard, born in 1943, New Orleans, USA, Musical training since childhood. Professional musician since 1960.

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DOWN BEAT MAGAZINE-NEW YORK: "One of the Best Alto Saxophonist around"

THE NEW YORK TIMES: "He sounds like a New Orleans reed player, gorgeously lyrical! "

SWING JOURNAL-JAPAN: "One of the most representative Musicians of the post Coltrane era"

A CAPITAL-LISBON: "One of the most representative young black musicians"

CINEFILO: "One of the Big Names of 'Free' "

JAZZ PODIUM STUTTGART: "It would be difficult to go beyond such a beautiful sound"

CODA TORONTO: "Perhaps, this nite some of us have seen the birth of a master"

JAZZ PRESS AMSTERDAM: "Mr. Howard, persuades with ease his magnificent altplay, mainly in his solo's he reaches the intensity of Coltrane's unforgettable music"

HAAGSE COURANT HOLLAND: "He was brillant with his own compositions, 'Creole Girl' and 'Red Star' "

JAZZ HOT PARIS: "His often very lyrical phrasing, his exuberance & his typical New Orleans drive, its happy, it is an orgy of sounds, it is a very dionysaic ceremony at times a background of magic of voodou (Maurice Cullaz, President de l'academie Française de Jazz)"

LE MONDE-PARIS: "Five hours of black contemporary music the Noah Howard Quartet with unforgettable sweetness & fury, lyrically closed the concert (Yves Bourde)"

UNITA-FLORENCE: "To demonstrate, in its complete evolution, the itinerary accomplished by jazz music, from dixieland to pop, Noah Howard continues the invention of jazz style"

MUSICA JAZZ-MILAN: "a peculiar dynamic in the saxophone's hypnotic repetitions, with the result of immediately plunging the listener into the theme, into the atmosphere knowingly created by the artist (Stefano Archilly)"

JAZZ MAGAZINE-PARIS: "as a leader Noah Howard can play his music and have it played ample & simple, his sound is no doubt one of the most exciting that one can hear on alto (Philippe Carle)"

DE MORGEN-BRUSSELS: "Noah Howard's warm deep voice and energetic, lyrical saxophone, brings the audience from Chicago blues to post bop and caribbean tunes"

HET NIEUWSBLAD-BRUSSELS: "Noah Howard's international name is a great honor for our country (A. De Swaen)"

STREEKNIEUWS-GHENT: "The American Noah Howard played funk-jazz at its best at the 'Ter Halle' and many others"

DALLAS EVENING NEWS: "Black American musicians find harmony in Paris."

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