"Eccentricity is an unusual trait in jazz nowadays, but Rodney Kendrick...is eccentric. He has clearly
absorbed the baroque styles of Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell, but there's something more knotty
about Mr. Kendrick's playing...He flirts with the avant-garde but is also enamored with the richness of
swing...Oddness, after so much predictability in jazz, is almost its own reward;
Mr. Kendrick offers that and ability, too."
