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"The Luna Quartet's “new standards” are, as one might infer from the album's paradoxical and punning title, all their own material.For the group's third album, pianist Steve Moon and bassist Damon Lee have divvied up songwriting duties, netting three apiece. Guitarist Ian Scherer, a new addition to the quartet, contributes one.

...steady emphasis on repetition and concision, the ensemble's songs display an affinity with mainstream pop. Not that this is off-putting or unwelcome. To the contrary. The pop quality is what gets a song like “Miss B's Logic” circling in one's head; the jazz quality is what enables it to set up long-term residence. ”Reflections” and “Passage,” the album's requisite ballads, are delicate and balanced. Both have a real sense of propulsion and a narrative arc, somehow in keeping with the proper sense of a ballad; Lee draws out his bow for the latter. The puckish “Now and Never” belongs, in the cosmic scheme of things, to one of the great swing crooners. It just needs appropriately playful lyrics.

It's far too early to tell whether any of these seven tracks will enter the jazz canon alongside charts such as “Polka Dots and Moonbeams” and “'Round Midnight,” but at any rate, they should go some way toward firmly establishing the young group as a talented
and authentic voice within the San Francisco jazz scene."

- Michael Ricci
- All About Jazz