"Harle is a saxophone legend"
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"He must be the most sought-after saxophonist in the world now"
The Australian

"Harle does not play the sax, he soars on it, each phrase a winged and burnished thing"
The Sunday Times

"No-one else creates a sound quite like this: apparently floating weightlessly, yet robust."
The Observer

"A dazzling workout. Technical and emotional mastery - all of which were as child's play for John Harle"
The New York Times at Carnegie Hall

"Mr. Harle's sound seemed to have no earthbound properties, suggesting a dreamlike state in which past and present are constantly fading into each another"
The Washington Sunday Times

"The way John plays gave me the idea of showing the wild, murderous debauched St Paul turning into Christ."
John Tavener - BBC Music Magazine

"Thanks to Harle, the saxophone has grown in status in the twentieth century. It may yet emerge as the paragon of wind instruments - their finest singer"
The Observer

"It hit the audience between the eyes - it reached the soul of the saxophone"
The Daily Telegraph

"John Harle plays with astonishing physical and expressive power"
The Independent

"Harle is the complete saxophonist"
BBC Music Magazine

"Sexy, sassy saxophone from John Harle"
BBC News

"John Harle, a soloist of barbarous splendour"
The Sunday Times

"Harle's saxophone playing is one of the most remarkable phenomena on the contemporary music scene"
The Guardian

"You MUST see the virtuosity and charisma of Harle as a musician, - exciting, edgy performances from the hottest saxophonist around today. Seeing is believing"
Q Magazine USA

"He sounds by turn louche and sleazy, wistful and romantic, and above all, incredibly sexual, the apothesis of every teenager who took up the sax because it pulled the girls"
The Evening Standard

"It was like sitting down for dinner in a reliable restaurant and being presented with an hors-d'oeuvre of cold sick. Among others I would have been happy to have chained Harle and Birtwistle, whose work has been called 'sonic sewage', naked to the railings outside as punishment"
Nigel Dempster - Daily Mail

"John Harle is our most ebullient and, wide-ranging saxophonist as well as doubtlessly our best"
The Sunday Times

"John Harle's virtuoso solo escapades perfected the proceedings"
The New York Times at Avery Fisher Hall

"A virtuoso and a sensitive musician"
BBC Music Magazine