"If you frequent the tiny avant-improv bunker Outpost 186, then you're familiar with clarinettist Todd Brunel's Vortex Series, which features some of the city's finest jazz musicians and free-improvisers of all stripes."

-The Boston Phoenix, "Bos Picks"

"The performances were all high quality..... Mr. Brunel, mostly on bass clarinet treated, to quote Judith Weir, as “a hysterical treble instrument with a surprise bass extension,” exhibited sure command of all his extended and unextended techniques...."
Read the full review here    

-Vance R. Koven, the Boston Music Intelligencer           


The Circadian Rhythm Kings
"With a name that mashes up the biological day/night clock with a prototypical jazz ensemble moniker,
and a roster that includes some of the most adventurous musicians around, the Kings
marry free jazz with swinging and funky beats."

-Kevin Lowenthal, The Boston Globe

Live appearance at the Nights On the Neck Series in Gloucester, MA on August 8 with drummer Jerome Deupree. 
CLICK HERE


" The perfect control over the instruments allowed the soloists the subtle, at times almost jocular transition through the different styles and genres – waltz, jazz, Bulgarian folk rhythms!… The emotional and capturing performance aroused the spontaneous applause of the audience and the consequent encore – a brief improvisation by Todd Brunel based on the Bulgarian folk song Recumbent Todora

— Polina Kuyumdzhieva, Music Critic, Musical Horizons Magazine

 
"Sweeping solos blown in a diverse stream of study nothingness.........played by true cats, heavy pros."

— The Gods of Music .com

 
"Todd Brunel's Vortex series presented Katt Hernandez and himself with highly regarded blues oriented pianist David Maxwell sitting in with the duo. The music was all over the place, succeeding and failing intermittently with all of its diversity. The highlight of the set.....was the Brunel Hernandez encore in which everything came together beautifully."

— Stu Vandermark, Cadence Magazine

 
" In "Freedom by Design", Butch Morris's Conduction leaves little to chance. The success of the conductions depends on Morris's ability to find compatible musicians.... In Boston, he'll have local clarinettist Todd Brunel, with whom he's worked before, as well as a couple of musicians from New York, including accordionist Andrea Parkins...."

— John Garelick, Boston Phoenix

 
" The Hurtado was nimbly traversed by.........clarinetist Todd Brunel"

— David Cleary, the New Music Connoisseur

 
Dave Latchaw's Music Ezine for Independant Musicians and fans of music:
http://www.latchmusic.com/the_zine_40_november_2003.htm

 
" Circadian Rhythm Kings and Americanmusicrevolution.com, two bands featuring reedman Todd Brunel, are playing a benefit for Zeitgeist Gallery tonight at the Cellar Bar."

— From the Boston Globe, Jazz Pick of the Week

 
" ...powerful polyrhymic improvisations"

— Somerville Arts Council