Press
Reviews of Glass Spheres can be found at (click on the title to read the review):
All About Jazz (Edward Blanco)
Ivan Rod (the review is in Danish)
Joe Dimino from Kansas City's Neon Jazz radio program and blog interviewed Chris about Glass Spheres. You can listen to the interview on YouTube by clicking here.
There's a nice review of Eternal Youth on Blurt; you can check it out here: Blurt review of Eternal Youth.
Cleveland's historic Scene Magazine ran a nice story about a track from Eternal Youth, "Be Honest with Yourself." Chris's grandfather, Art Mondak, began working on the song in 1955, and Chris finished it off and recorded it in 2019.
Another Cleveland news organization ran an even longer story about "Be Honest with Yourself."
Thanks to WEFT in Champaign, IL, which listed Eternal Youth as one of its 20 most-played jazz CDs in 2019, and to KUSF radio in San Francisco for including Eternal Youth (along with albums by artists such as Prince and Vampire Weekend) as one of their top 20 albums in August, 2019:
Radio Play
Glass Spheres (2022) reached #17 on the NACC jazz radio chart and spent several weeks in the Jazz Week Top 100.
Songs from Chris's 2019 CD Eternal Youth have been heard on some 400+ radio stations. Tracks have been aired on Jazz Network, "Jazz Happening Now," "Jazz After Hours," and on Hawaii Public Radio's "Evening Jazz."
Several of Chris's other CDs also have received radio play, including the Nextgen Jazz Quartet's Starlight, West of Staley's You Gotta Start Somewhere, and NxT's Sounds Familiar.