Reviews

 " Were Lockheart living in New York , he'd likely be a part of the circle that includes David Binney, saxophonist Chris Potter , guitarist Adam Rogers, and bassist Scott Colley. That's recommendation enough for jazz fans outside the UK to step beyond their own defined circles and check out a player as contemporary and significant as any of his American counterparts". John Kelman All About Jazz

With a huge stylistic and emotional range, Lockheart's music is contemporary and compelling". Mojo

Extempore is so beautiful and vibrant it makes any former medieval meets-modern project sound positively slapdash Mojo

"A powerful set of contemporary jazz, his spacious improvising is a refreshing antidote to many tenor players exploring Coltrane vocabulary." Time Out

"With his 11-piece band Lockheart creates the most inviting musical landscapes alive with fresh bright instrumental combinations and harmonies" The Observer

"This is great writing, not just themes and solo opportunities, but structures, an understanding tension and fusion, and a sense that it all has to be integrated. Wow-someone's got the point." Musician

" Perfect Houseplants is the most innovative and elegant contemporary Jazz Quartet on the British scene." 
The Times

"Lockheart’s music slides in upon you with a mixture of imagination and craftsmanship that is irresistible. The writing demands plenty of the musicians and equally, deserves the concentration of the listener. For while these pieces are overwhelmingly compositional, little themes and figures emerge unexpectedly from the score in a way that suggests improvisation, instant flickers of ideas which seem to keep their immediacy on the sheet". Jazz Review