“Rising bassist Paul Baxter has selected eight cuts of exploratory piano-based  jazz, forged in the company of keys master Johnny Tomlinson and the excellent skins and bronze of Kris Wright. ‘Evolution’ manages that often sought, yet rarely achieved balance of being sweetly melodic and sufficiently experimental to please both the improv cognescenti and those who prefer their small band jazz to maintain a mainstream appeal. ‘Time of Arrival’ is a wonderful example, scene-setting arpeggios leading with a warm-hearted sense of inevitability to closing expansive splashes of colour. A True Gem!”

- The Musician, Dec 2010.