"Schlicht knows how to make substantive statements that favor clarity over density"

                                                -pointofdeparture.org

"a European talent who has the skill and finesse to number her among the best of the free improvisers on either side of the Atlantic."

                                                - allmusicguide.com

“Robert Dick and Ursel Schlicht on Thursday night carried on the idea that if musical art is going somewhere, the means of conveyance is as important as the destination.”

                                                - New York Times

“Pianist Ursel Schlicht and flutist Robert Dick, […] played a lyrical duet where the improvisation reached the clarity and consistency of a composition.”

                                                 -Hessich-Niedersaechsische Allgemeine

“Ursel Schlicht provided effective multi-note patterns that seesawed the group from wailing intensity to the exploration of a gentler, though no less intense, side in a set of music which was truly a complete excursion of musical textures.”

                                                 - All About Jazz

"A couple of pieces used composed lines in unpredictable phrase groupings -  one in fact called Fragments - that recalled some compositions of George  Russell or Albert Mangelsdorff."

                                                 - SIMA, Sydney

"When playing in a fast swing, or at least implied swing, Schlicht produced  running parallel lines that reminded me obliquely of Lennie Tristano. Cecil Taylor-like dissonance was certainly employed, but there was no  sensationalism."

                                                 - SIMA, Sydney

With an angry edge. The quartet of pianist Ursel Schlicht presented an outstanding avant garde concert. “A band with a really unique sound, also because of the colors that Ursel Schlicht extracts from the piano dissonant dots, clusters, web-like expanding cascades, or fragile-metallic sounds from the inside of the instrument."

                                                 - Hessisch-Niedersaechsische Allgemeine

"Schlicht's piano work can range from deft pointillism to actual bodily harm, yet her occasional right-hand octaves and Skriabinesque harmonies  reveal a strong grounding in classical technique."

                                                 - paristransatlantic.com

"Pianist Ursel Schlicht, trombonist Steve Swell, bassist Ken Filiano and drummer Lou Grassi proved to be most creative virtuosos. Especially Schlicht stood out with artful piano sounds, reminiscent of numerous contemporary composers.”

                                                 - Wuppertaler Zeitung

"A dialogue, so intense, present, that it creates an own dimension, transcending space and time.”

                                                 - Hessisch-Niedersaechsische Allgemeine