Without sounding like I'm going over the top with praise, this release is terrific and top heavy with superb musicianship and quality material and is worthy of any blues lover's attention. It also highlights the cream of the next generation of blues musicians starting to make their names on the Chicago blues scene.
 Mike Stephenson
Jan. 2012

 If blues music is dying, you would never know it after you listen to the first major label release by Toronzo Cannon. While some fear for the future, Toronzo Cannon uses vibrant material coupled with his unbridled enthusiasm to provide ample evidence that the blues tradition is safe in his hands.
 Mark Thompson

  Toronzo Cannon is almost a rarity these days -- and honest-to-gosh young Chicago player steeped in the blues and willing to play them.
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Jim White

 With consistently powerful performances from Cannon, a batch of compelling original songs, and the exemplary band work, Leaving Mood is a must-hear CD that should rank among the year’s best.
 Jim DeKoster

  Cannon plays the blues like it should be played – with an urgency that speaks to its contemporary relevance.
 Rosalind Cummings-Yeates

 Bill Wax 
"PICK TO CLICK" Toronzo Cannon's cd Leaving Mood
for January 2012