EVENING GAZETTE, Worcester, Massachusetts
"Stan McDonald's Blue Horizon...is better than almost any band you're likely to find in the swinging clubs along Bourbon Street in New Orleans, where the hot and gutsy sounds of traditional jazz and blues originated."

MIDDLESEX NEWS, Framingham, Massachusetts
"McDonald and the band touched the sky, capping the night with a madcap arrangement of Swanee River that had the place jumping."

ARTS JUBILEE '86, Conway, New Hampshire
"If you haven't heard the classic jazz of Sidney Bechet or Jelly Roll Morton, by the end of the performance you will know why the blue Horizon lovingly, joyously continues to breathe life into their music."

JAZZ NOTES, Cape Cod Jazz Society
"The Blue Horizon Jazz Band is notable for its rich and beautiful music that rewards the quiet listener as much as it tends to incite those who prefer to dance...A perfect combination."

NEW YORK TIMES jazz critic John Wilson, on Stan McDonald, in HIGH FIDELITY
"A superb clarinetist and soprano saxophonist...a gloriously full bodied Bechet stylist."

About Stan McDonald

"...A gloriously full-bodied Bechet stylist."
John S. Wilson, HIGH
FIDELITY MAGAZINE, 1983

"McDonald's soprano sax wails and sails with all the fire and aggressive control of the incomparable Bechet..."
George Kay (reviewer for the New Orleans Jazz Club 1980)

"Among the groups soloist
soprano saxophonist Stan McDonald was outstanding in
his evocations of Sidney Bechet..." 
Bob Blumenthal, Boston Globe Jazz Festival March 1979

"McDonald in a mellow "Song of Songs" was the loveliest moment of the evening"
Bruce Laird, THE NEWS JOURNAL, Wilmington, Delaware March 24, 1979 (review of concert
at the Grand Opera House)

"...Stan McDonald is an emotional player.  On a strictly musical basis, he is the most impressive member of Black Eagle.  If you close your eyes, you could swear that Johnny Dodds, Omer Simeon and Sidney Bechet had come back to life.
Charles Guiliano, JAZZ NEW ENGLAND 1975