“Twenty years after the passing of Joe Williams, John Dokes seems primed to be one of the emerging jazz artists most likely to carry forth the legend’s elegantly refined soul-blues style. On True Love, the second in a planned trilogy of quintet albums that began with 2017’s Forever Reasons, Dokes uses his soulful, silky-smooth baritone to plumb fresh, alternately whimsical and deeply heartfelt ways to ponder the joys, pitfalls and vagaries of love and romance”

— Jonathan Widran, Jazziz Magazine