"There's no doubt that Svend Asmussen is a candidate for the title as Greatest Jazz Violinist of All Times along with a small handful of instrumental colleagues. In short, Svend Asmussen is a phenomenon. It is a great pleasure to be able to explore this treasure chest with svend Asmussen in so many different settings, both studio and live, and with picks from his whole career." - Jazz Special, #149.

Violinist Kristian Jørgensen on Svend Asmussen: "For Svend, the melody and harmony are the most important things in the music. His improvisations can be played on all instruments and still sound interesting. I think he is the greatest of them all. He possesses a very fine mix of Joe Venuti's virtuosity, Stuff Smith's rhythmical power and Grappelli'ss elegance. He hits the perfect golden ratio"

Professor in comparative litterature, Hans Hertel: "Svend Asmussen has contributed to the great emancipation project  as a playful virutous. And even though he didn't belong to the cultural-radical garde, he has played some of the same strings"

Politiken, February 28, 2016 

Svend Asmussen on playing the 1985 "Embraceable" concert in Paris with bassist Georges Arvanitas (included in the box): "I can still feel the spirit that came from playing with him and the other two in that small club. It was a concert I can be nothing but happy about having been a part of. I hope everyone kan feel the same when they listen to the CD"

Frederiksborg Amts Avis, February 27, 2016

"Danish jazz history would have looked a whole lot different, if Svend Asmussen had followed his father's advice and become a dentist. But it was the music the young Asmussen lived for, and he debuted at only age 17 with his own quintet. Svend Asmussen is a legend on the Danish jazz scene". 

- Ritzau, February 25, 2016

"Both curiosity and an aversion against routine has kept [Svend Asmussen] going. Self criticism has, in short, always been a part of the drive towards the 100 years, and uncompromising work and a never failing conscience that that an audience is entitled to an experience, has been part of the ingredients".

- Ringkøbing Skjern Dagblad, February 29, 2016.  

"It isn't the 100 years that has given Svend Asmussen the recognition he now holds: That of a legend. It is his intensity and diversity. He has been a singer, a multiinstrumentalist, a composer, an actor, a showman, a sound technician, a painter and so on. And always with his perfectionism intact, as a very personal twist".

- Berlingske, February 28, 2016

"The sound quality is very high all the way through and the DVD is professionally made. The violin talks, cries and laughs and Svend Asmussen is in his very best of playing moods on, for example, the 1996 recording. The film is of a fine length and mad ewith a genuine care for the music, in other words: The cameras really are on the cutting edge of the beat!". 

- Lasse Seger, Orkester Journalen

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http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=53064

Chris Mosey, AllAboutJazz

"Although hardly comprehensive, this album is a wide-ranging survey of the very fertile jazz career of one of swing's pioneers whose career lasted through the 20th century... Asmussen ceased playing - at least publicly - in the early 21st Century, but this collection proves that he played with undiminished swing and inventiveness into his ninth decade.. Along the way, we get to see the violinist at his swinging, inventive best, interagting with Kenny Drew's elegant bop/swing piano and especially with NHØP" 

- The New York City Jazz Record, September 2016

This is another set not to be missed. Highly recommended.

Herb Young-IAJRC

"The greatest jazz violinist you have (probably) never heard of... I recommended back in 2009 that those who want to share my discovery of this amazing musician get the Shanachie DVD. Now I can recommend this box set just as highly!"

Steven Ramm, Anything Phonographic