"Available Jelly is a Dutch group that plays a heady blend of 
originals, little heard Ellington, and some African songs, the 
instrumentation almost giving it the feel of traditional jazz (by 
which I intend the kind that developed around the time of the first 
world war). Eric Boeren's cornet, Wolter Wierbos's brash and vocal 
trombone, and Michael Moore's clarinet and alto can impart the 
flavour of a New Orleans front line, while tenor saxophonist Toby 
Delius can summon the breathy bluster of Hawkins and Webster. While 
its eclecticism is bound to suggest Dutch ensembles led by Misha 
Mengelberg and Willem Breuker, Available Jelly has a character of 
it's own, a raw vitality that seeps into the most precise ensemble. 
It's music that's often contrapuntal within the ghost of tonality and 
it jumps with spectacular life in the joyous collisions that arise 
between its written parts and its improvising styles. Ernst Glerum on 
bass and Michael Vatcher on drums drive and bounce it along with the 
effervescence of a (global) village band."

Coda, January/February 1998



"" - Jazz Nu