"LANE’S CONFIDENCE AND CONFRONTATIONAL PROWESS AS WELL AS HIS ABIDING SENSE OF LYRICISM AND HEAVY-GROOVE POWER PLACE HIM IN THE LINEAGE OF FORWARD-JAZZ ADVENTURISM."
Sam Prestiani, Jazziz, July 2000.
"AS A COMPOSER, LANE DRAWS ON JAZZ BUT IS NOT TRAPPED IN THE GENRE. ON THE CONTRARY, HE DARES TO BE TOTALLY NUTS, WHICH IS AN UNDENIABLE PLUS."
Ben Watson, Wire, Jan 2000
"LANE IS AN AMBITIOUS COMPOSER WHO CLEARLY HAS THE GOODS, ONE WHO CAN COMMAND A LARGE ENSEMBLE WITH DARING ELOQUENCE OR JUST AS QUICKLY BLOW THE ROOF OFF THE JOINT WITH UNLEASHED CACOPHONY."
Jon Morgan, Signal to Noise, Aug. 2000
"THERE IS A SUGGESTION OF FRANK ZAPPA ABOUT LANE’S WORK, ALTHOUGH IT IS MADDER THAN ANY OF HIS, AND HIS LINER NOTES REALLY ARE CRAZY."
Double Bassist Magazine, Spring 2001
"WITH TONGUES PLANTED FIRMLY IN CHEEK, BLOWING WET RASPBERRIES IN YOUR EAR WHILE LASCIVIOUSLY LICKING THE LOBES OF MINGUS, STOCKHAUSEN, AND BEEFHEART, LANE’S SEXTET HAS THE FLEXIBILITY TO PIVOT FROM THE INTERSTEALLR SPACE OF MEDITATIVE JAZZ TO THE WARP SPEED OF HARD BOP."
Aaron Shuman, East Bay Express, July 25, 2001
"ADAM LANE COMES ACROSS [ON INFINITESIMAL FLASH] AS A MONSTER BASSIST AND ONE TO KEEP AN EYE ON."
Coda, Jan/Feb 2001
"LANE’S WRITING SKILLS ARE ROCK SOLID, AND HE ENJOYS A BREADTH OF APPRECIATION FOR A RANGE OF STYLES, FROM WHIP-THRASHING FREE-STYLE JAZZ TO HARD-HITTING BLUES TO NEW ELECTRONICA TO HARD BOP."
Steven Loewy, All Music Guide, 2002
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