"These West Coasters have a thing about music hovering between funk, the jam, free jazz, and good solid swing, simultaneously doing it all (and them all) right...You don't often bump into this sort of thing, which makes it all the better when it's unexpected. So score twenty for John Ettinger and his team. August Rain is a dream state with enough of both fantasy and reality to leave you wondering whether it's actually happening."
Nils Jacobson, All About Jazz