'CROSSING' TOP DEBUT ALBUM OF 2011--Jazz Journalists Association

"Mr. Kono...has a gleaming new album, CROSSING, (Nineteen-Eight), that establishes his style as a bandleader-composer: cosmopolitan and unflappable, with a feel for rallying his sidemen."--Nate Chinen, The New York Times

"An overpoweringly great record!"--Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times