Jo Lawry - Waiting for the Angel (2015)

"Best Debut Album of the Year" -Bob Blumenfeld, Jazz Critics’ Poll 2015

"Best Albums of the Year: Honorable Mention" -Howard Mandel, President, Jazz Journalists Association

"Sounds like Chet Baker and Annie Proulx trading riffs at the Blue Note." -Sridhar Pappu, Billboard

"Hajdu’s lyrics are vivid, with grim, mordant undertones." -Matthew Kassel, New York Obersever

"Hajdu's songs come across like clear, present and first-hand joys and anxieties set to music, major-chord realizations and minor-key moments that likely have played our in Hajdu’s life or rattled around his mind after he’s completed listening to and commenting on other people’s music." -Larry Blumenfeld, BluNotes

"Hajdu is as clever, witty and literate a lyricist as you are likely to hear these days. Whether he’s telling us about 'Donna the Astronomer' or Billy Strayhorn advising a whining Duke Ellington to just 'suffer,' he’s a lyricist like no other you’re used to right now." -Jeff Simon, Buffallo News

"The entire CD is just filled with lyrical and musical surprises performed by gorgeous voices and great musicians." -David Kenney, WBAI radio

“Witty, challenging lyrics and wistful, if sometimes grim, melodies. ‘The Girl in the Grocery Box’ [is] about a girl who cannot be ‘contained’ by conventional categories. The same might be said of Hajdu’s excellent songwriting debut.” -Victoria Ordin, Cabaret Scenes