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Gainesville Sun - 2014
TheCM5 - 2013
ArtburstMiami - 2012
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Urban ReThink - 2011
Gainesville Sun - 2011
Alligator - 2011
Tadhanna - 2009
SunSentinel - 1989
Gainesville Sun - 1991
Gainesville Sun - 1984
Jill Burton - Wikipedia
PRESS QUOTES:
"...Burton is a lounge queen, animal imitator, lawdy mama--she's terrific!...profound incoherence..."--R.J. Smith, Village Voice
"...one of the great foundation improvisors of America..."--LaDonna Smith, Red Mountain Post
"...a performance artist of singular, non-assaultive, exploratory talent..."--Porter Anderson, Tampa Tribune
"...curiously refreshing...bizarre...sultry...bold and innovative...a welcome alternative..."--Clark Perry, St. Petersburg Times
"...very captivating performance...mysterious and haunting...theatrical...expressive...sonically beautiful and varied...very strong..."--Amanda Chaudhary, Catsynth
"...a non-verbal level of energy...revealed in the physicality of the exchange between the artist and the audience...a provocative singer, dancer and performer." --EAR Magazine
"...eschews rules...I've never heard anything like it...she's gifted...What she was doing can't be put into words...It was emotional...passionate..."--Miami New Times
"One of the best singers I have ever heard...powerful focused expression...very shamanistic..."--Stephen Malagodi, Spectacular Sound
"...focuses amazing energy from the environment into her stunning performance art..."--Gustavo Matamoros, Miami Listening News
"...a real phenomenon...exploratory...impressive..."--Esteban Meneses, Orlando Examiner
"...earthy elegance...loopy intricate harmonies..."--Sandra Schulman, Sun-Sentinal
"...easy swagger...elegant...haunting...beautiful..."--Jillian Steinhauer, Hyperallergic
"...boldly takes chances...with verve, color, and confidence...literally boundless ability..."--Bill DeYoung, Gainesville Sun
"...combines mystical channeling and transformed electromagnetic fields..."--New York Magazine
"...casts a magical spell when performing...one-of-a-kind performance art..."--Mike McLane, Gainesville Sun
"...A sweet stage demeanor...a shyness and a sense of humor that were disarming when juxtaposed with the intensity of her performance...an undeniably beautiful voice...her range is impressive. So are her ideas...Ultimately, Burton is subverting common perceptions about what vocalists should do..."-- Norine Dworkin, SunSentinal
"...Burton is one of those rare individuals who make it their province to expand these restrictions, to tear the envelope...to go beyond...a new synthesis of oral text..."--Karl VP Groome, EAR Magazine
"...an adventurous and daring technician stretching even the outermost boundaries of her instrument...uses her voice as a vehicle for otherworldly and how-did-she-do-that timbres...a vocal shape-shifter, actively challenging conventions of free-improvisation and spiritual chant...adventurous is, in this case, an understatement."--B. Reed, Free Times
"...a solo voice improvisation by Jill Burton. Beginning with the breath, and then delving deep into the cutting edge of tone splitting atoms creating new universes, well placed silences simulating the echoes across the expanse of a gorge. Then the intonation...deep from the gut, the gallery of emotions, mantra, the gallery of sound, capturing and releasing, cleaning the core, moving energy from within and at the same time, the act of receiving and giving others the glimpse of the soul of past lives, channeling as a medium for many other voices, sharing the ritual origins of the belly, the sound chambers, the human wind pipe, the call of the wild as energy harnessed into a small woman's body and released as a powerful mystery of our past, present and future...presented every possible emotion..."--LaDonna Smith, Improvisor Journal