Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing

(Oxford University Press, 2008.) Michael Dregni.

"Sammo  appears impossibly young, especially to be playing this venerable music with such eloquence. 'All of Me,' 'Django's 'Swing 41,' 'Night and Day,' 'Somewhere over the Rainbow,' --he plays it all, launching elegant improvisations that carry you far away from a Minnesota winter night back in time to the City of Ligthts in the 1930s."

Sammo Miltich named the winner of the 2007 Dudley Hill Award.

Read the announcement on the Djangofest NW site

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"Sammo Does it Again!" Review of "Some of These Days" on CDBaby.com,

Pazzo Publishing, July 2007

"With inventive arrangements, kalidesopic programming, heartfelt soloing, taste, swing & just plain old talent this young man his crew bring this music confidently into the end of the first decade of the new century. A joy to watch in live performance, Sammo Miltich is no less inspiring on record. With each recording ... he just seems to get broader AND deeper."

"Clearwater Hot Club peforms in the Current studio" on" The Morning Show" Minnesota Public Radio. 22 June 2007. Read the story and listen here.

Django Reinhardt and the Illustrated History of Gypsy Jazz (Speck Press, 2006). Michael Dregni with Alain Antonietto and Anne Legrand

"Sammo Miltich was just eighteen when he first appeared on the jazz scene, playing guitar as if he was channeling Django's spirit. Now, two albums later, his Minnesota-based Clearwater Hot Club is one of the most exciting and joyful of Gypsy bands anywhere."

Review of "May Rain" in Vintage Guitar Magazine, April 2005.

"May Rain" displays a dramatic maturity and sophistication while not losing the joy of playing that jumped off the tracks of his first CD...the band's original compositions best showcase its originality...Throughout, Sam's guitarwork is spirited, inventive, hot...

"The Kid is Hot." by V. Paul Vitucio. Duluth News Tribune. 2 January 2004

...The Grand Rapids teen exhibited a virtuosity that belied his age. At the same time he acted loose, joking with the audience and his Clearwater Hot Club bandmates... "He's so technical, and yet he enjoys himself so much. He isn't consumed by the details"...To watch him play this, you can't hardly believe your eyes. He's really just a big, gangly kid that plays fantastically...On stage, Sam Miltich is consumed by the music..."I don't think you can teach him how to play that way. It's innate."

Review of "May Rain' in Kulstad's "Five plus one" column. "The Chord: your connection to The Electric Fetus. February 2005.

...Miltich has become a mature and highly skilled player. He and The Hot Club have evolved into a group that no longer plays the music written and inspired by Django, they own these takes on him. This is as wonderful as the first recordings of Peter Oshtrousko, where you couldn't believe somebody this good was moving among us.

Review of "Sammo" in Acoustic Guitar, February 2005.

Sammo...Reveals a firm grasp of traditional Gypsy jazz vocabulary, and his playing is assured, melodic, and energetic without any speed-for-speed's sake hot dogging. Miltich is especially good at the lyrical and reflective...

"Play It Again, Sammo: He may be a Gypsy-jazz wunderkind, but Sam Miltich is home on the Range" by Dimitri Kaasan. Minnesota Monthly, October 2004.

...He calls out the count to his band and launches into an up-tempo, Gypsy-jazz "All of Me," his fingers dancing around the fretboard like a swirl of swing dancers. Most listeners marvel with mouths agape or heads shaking...