Looking back historically it was a big event-- at the time all we wanted to do was play. and it was courtesy of Dave that the whole thing happened and kept happening. He was the man who taped us, who made the whole thing happen and it was our respect for him, his flagrant love for us and our music and, in turn, our high regard for him as an artist that created this incredible environment in which we flourished, continuing a very unusual and important period in our music.

— Bob Brookmeyer

What Gertrude Stein's Paris salon was to writers, the loft in New York City was to jazz musicians. In fact, for a brief moment, the loft may have been the center of the jazz universe -- a bastion of experimentation and improvisation. A little place where legends jammed and where solos lasted till dawn.

— Jeff Greenfield, CNN & TIME, broadcast Feb 20, 2000