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"Roulette constantly offers the famous, the diverse, the perverse, the multi-media. Roulette is run by under-recorded trombonist Jim Staley, with a Board of Directors of the greats. I'd love to be a fly on the wall at a meeting just to hear people like George Lewis, Alvin Lucier, William Parker, John Zorn, and Ned Rothenberg talk music. For a sixty dollar membership, you can see every concert for one year; it's an amazing offer, given that there are over thirty concerts each quarterly season."
- Steven H. Koenig, La Folia Online Music Review , April 1999

"As usual, Roulette has the best female-to-male ratio, with Zeena Parkins, Nicole Zaray, Monika Heidemann."
- Elodie Lauten, Sequenza21.com , October 2005

"An invaluable experimental music series"
- Steve Smith, Time Out New York , September 2006

"Experimentalist music finds a safe harbor in this longtime series"
- The New Yorker , April 2006

"The crowd, just as diverse as the music, seems to enjoy Roulette's atmosphere. The space is simple and uncluttered and shows start right on time ... The point is the performance. "This is one of the best contexts to hear serious work," said Toni Dove, a performance artist and Roulette regular. "Here, it's a serious presentation of sound, and it's paid attention to. In other places, that's more difficult." "People don't expect to work very hard in other clubs," says electric violinist Guy Yarden, "and at Roulette, you're able to do stuff that can demand as much of the audience as it does of the performer -- whether its using your imagination or just thinking hard about the piece."
- Deborah Kelt, Downtown Express , 1992