PRESS & REVIEWS
Here is a list of album reviews from the US press. Click on each one to read the full review. There is also a list of international reviews available. A selection of features and interviews can be found here.
REVIEWS FOR SONGS FROM ISOLATION (2020)

'Songs From Isolation isn't under any form of lockdown. Wade's solo work is out there in the wider world now, lending more strength to his reputation as a first-class bassist.'
2020

2020

NOUVEAUFLUX
'What I found interesting about Songs From Isolation is that Mark is utilizing the familiar tools for producing music spun by a rejuvenated vision, thoughtfulness, and purpose-driven by the spirit of creativity to comprise, compose, arrange, perform and produce fresh heartfelt musical ideas to break new ground.'
2020
REVIEWS FOR MOVING DAY (2018)

MEDIUM (2018)




ICON MAGAZINE (2018)
'Wade has an assertive style on acoustic bass—rippling and sinewy as befitting Buster Williams and Mike Richmond. The surging “Wide Open” is an insistent somewhat modal-sounding piece...Wade’s rapid, dexterous solo practically dances in your head. “Midnight in the Cathedral” is something of a game-changer — dense, ominous, and ruminating, it evokes the open-ended, questing character of Chick Corea’s acoustic trio work. Watch this fellow and his trio.'

THE JAZZ PAGE (2018)
'Mark Wade’s Moving Day is the perfect blend of exploration, exposition and pure joy of playing. Whether its his own originals, which comprise the bulk of this effort, or a re-working of the couple of classic tunes on the effort, its fun listening to the inventiveness and artistry. The fluid ease of performance by the players reflects the overall feeling of the recording as whole. A fantastic production.'

'Even with the excellent bass playing, it is for Wade’s composing that Moving Day will probably be best remembered...the music tends to be episodic, evolves as it progresses, is full of subtle creativity, and features close interplay by the trio...Moving Day is the type of softly inventive jazz that grows in interest with each listen.'

JERSEY JAZZ (2018)
'This trio functions as an organic entity, with each player contributing to the shifting colors and shadings implicit in their approaches to the tunes...Wade’s musical imagination seems to have no limits, and the results are a equally likely to challenge the listener’s imagination. Moving Day is indeed a moving aural experience.'
REVIEWS FOR EVENT HORIZON (2015)











"This is in the best tradition of the modern piano trio a fully three-way affair. Everybody contributes fully to the very nice end result. The music encompasses the richly complex musical matrices of modern jazz trios from Evans through Tyner and beyond.
There's plenty of excellent bass playing here to satisfy the bass-minded, but everybody comes together for a trio date that has much to like about it."

