Stone/Water by Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album a full 4 stars, and stated: "For all the extraordinary volume on show, this is a remarkable feat of engineering and one that tends to suggest that Brötz has all too rarely had his music documented with this level of accuracy... This leaves the listener breathless."

Writing for The New York Times, Ben Ratliff included the album in his "Critics' Choices" column, and commented: "The greatest hope for free jazz is form. Not to worry: it won't make cultural conservatives out of musicians like Mr. Brotzmann, the brilliant electronics-mad trumpeter Toshinori Kondo and the bassist William Parker. The structuring of this woolly music into contrasting sections and its double rhythmic kick from the drummers Michael Zerang and Hamid Drake provide the album's power."

Michael A. Parker of All About Jazz remarked: "this music reaches points of terrifying intensity at times, although it also balanced by a great deal of more subdued exploration. It seems to alternate between these extremes every few minutes or so, making for a very satisfying experience."

JazzWord's Ken Waxman called the album a "fine session," and wrote: "with a veteran's maturity, the saxophonist now knows exactly when to let 'er rip and when to keep things on a quieter level." However, he noted that "with nearly everyone allowed solo space, focus is sometimes lost."
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