4 Stars– DownBeat 2020 Solo Flight

4.5 Stars– All About Jazz 2019 747 Queen of the Skies

Top 20– Tone Madison 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016

Best of the Year– 2019, 2018 B-Side Records

Top 10– Kevin Lynch-2017

With the State of the Baritone series, the saxophonic underdog has been duly served and celebrated Josef Woodard – Downbeat

On State of the Baritone Volume 3, the music here is anything but predicable and Svanoe writes memorable melodies, like the hard swinging bebop composition Bird Strike which would fit easily on a Pepper Adams recording Mark Corroto – All About Jazz

State of the Baritone 2 is a muscular session combining frequent groove propulsion and multiple tune sections, making a harmonious marriage between bebop and free blowing…exceptional saxophonist Jon Irabagon knows when he’s sighted a fellow virtuoso Martin Longley – DownBeat

Some people see a baritone saxophone and think it an obtuse and blunt instrument. Not Anders Svanoe; he sees his baritone saxophone as a sharpened, yet subtle tool. Evidenced by State Of The Baritone Volume 2, he communicates everything from shuffling boogaloos to energized free-jazz, post-bop, and folk music with an uncanny naturalness Mark Corroto – All About Jazz

We need people who can find their own source, within themselves, and create from there. This is the kind of people I want to be associated with, and Anders has got that. He’s an original, definitely Roscoe Mitchell

Here’s a collection of compromises that includes some must-hear musical events…VII is a bold baritone sax solo by Anders Svanoe John Litweiler

Svanoe presents originality within the now decades-old tradition of free improvisation – a welcome, promising, and especially inventive presence as the music finds a new audience Neil Tesser

Anders Svanoe’s extended baritone improvisation on “VII,” an ingenious statement that conjures the aural countenances of Harry Carney and Pat Patrick into a brilliant reduction Derek Taylor