"American tabla player Jim Feist delighted the audience ....Pudhari (Indian Newspaper)
"Jim Feist's tabla mesmorized the crowd" ...Bhaskar (Rajasthani newspaper)
"Tabla Wizard From the West" ....The Times of India
"Tabla rhythm that is smooth and confident" ....Downbeat Magazine
"Feist starts a flurry on the tabla. even without accompaniment his polyrhythmic notes are almost too much to fathom" ....Artspike Magazine
The work sample is a well recorded clearly narrated performance that reminded me of an absolutely galvanizing late night recital among the cognoscenti more than 34 years ago in Bombay, of one of India's leading tabla masters. His playing is strong and powerful with real authority in both his left and right hands. and given the homogenization of styles in Indian music in recent decades, his project of documenting one tradition-at the same time being able to demonstrate a rich anthology of repertoire from diverse tabla gharanas, as he does so well in his cd-has merit as well....
-- Reviewer from the American Institute of Indian Studies
