“CONCERT PREVIEW

Sarah Hughes is getting inside her sound by getting outside herself.”

“COY FISH REVIEW

Sarah Hughes...isn’t looking to reinvent the wheel, isn’t looking to pioneer some new subgenre of jazz or creative music or even really looking to expand its vocabulary for posterity. It’s not about posterity. She simply wants to find a place wherein she’s creatively fulfilled and comfortable. That’s more than enough—hell, it’s everything.”

“BEST RISING MUSICAL VISIONARY

“I’ve always had a problem repeating myself,” Sarah Hughes says of her music. “I equate repetition with being kind of stuck. A person isn’t evolving if they keep repeating themselves.””

“BEST ALTO SAXOPHONIST

On the subject of creative growth, wow. Hughes has sustained the most stunning arc in recent memory, and moments of that came in defiance of a nightmarish assault and theft earlier this year. Conceptually, technically, improvisationally, she is one step ahead of damn near all of us—keep your eye and ear on her.”