Press

Echoes of Metheny, Stern, and Breau (among others) surface in Hertzog’s playing, but his dazzlingly adventurous approach puts him in a jazz league all his own.
- Art Thompson, Guitar Player Magazine

Patterns is GP Mag's Editor's Pick, June 2010!!
Read Jake's featured interview in Guitar Player Magazine [June 2009]

"It’s almost safe to say that this sounds like nothing you’ve heard before. This is the guitar record you play when you absolutely, positively need to have your mind melted."
- Chris Spector, Midwest Records
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"...undeniably killing."
- Bill Milkowski, Jazz Critic & Author (Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius)
Full album liner notes from Patterns

"Tech heads and six-string fans need to hear guitarist Jake Hertzog..."
- Doug Simpson, CampusCircle.com
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"There is something here that hasn't been heard before! Hertzog plays confident, even blistering solos... Certainly a must-buy for fans of great fusion and jazz guitar!"
- Steve Roberts, ZNR Records
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"Pumping & full of life-giving energy... I'm once again highly impressed - and knowing I have an album my ears will listen to over & over & over again, as will yours."
- Rotcod Zzaj, ImproviJazzNation
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“Jake Hertzog is a risk-taker and a mind-blowing guitarist. There is nothing else like it.”
- Susan Frances, JazzReview.Com
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"Sure to perk up the ears of all guitar fans."
- MWE3.com [Music Web Express 3000]
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“Very impressive for such a young man!”
- John McLaughin

"Hertzog keeps listeners constantly on their toes, zigging when you might expect him to zag, and blazing through unorthodox intervallic maneuvers with an ease that would likely give players twice his age pause."
- Barry Cleveland, Guitar Player Magazine
Full Article - “…the blazing wunderkind”

“Hertzog is the real deal on many levels...one of the most original I have heard”
- Ralph A. Miriello, Jazz.com
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“Advanced... moving... elegant...”
- Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times
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Full review round-up on Chromatosphere [2009]»