The Gift is trumpeter Roy Campbell, violinist Jason Hwang and drummer William Hooker. Together, they produce music of exceptional plangency and emotional energy. Campbell inevitably occupies much of the frontscape, with the fiddle yawning and wailing behind like a bass player with a bank of pedals, but Hwang has a formidable musical mind and his more detailed passages demand close listening. The real wonder of the set is Hooker, who manages to give long performances a consistent pulse and energy without ever setting a clearly discernible metre... A first rate album.

Brian Morton, THE WIRE