Turning Point (Kevin Eubanks album)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
All Music Guide to Jazz	[5]
Detroit Free Press	[7]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[9]
The Indianapolis Star	[10]
MusicHound Jazz: The Essential Album Guide	[11]
The News & Observer	[8]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP & Cassette	[12]
The Philadelphia Inquirer	[13]
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide	[14]

Many critics considered Turning Point to be a less fusion- and pop-oriented album than Eubanks's previous work, a conclusion that annoyed the musician.^[15]

The Indianapolis Star stated that "Eubanks has lots of facility, but he husbands his resources wisely... His playing is angular, crisply accented and loaded with funky hooks".^[10] The Gazette advised, "Imagine Wes Montgomery on speed, or John McLaughlin with soul"; the paper later listed Turning Point as one of the best jazz albums of 1992.^[16][17] The Ottawa Citizen said, "On the pivotal 'Spiral Ways' the trio builds an ascending, tension-filled Eubanks melody to a Mahavishnu-style boil, with Holland and Smith prodding the guitarist to the finest playing of his career."^[18]

The Birmingham Post praised the "exotic soundscapes and driving rhythms."^[19] LA Weekly noted that Eubanks's "filing cabinet of technique [allows] him to be funky ratchet or classical gas."^[20] The Philadelphia Inquirer said that Eubanks "endows 'Colors of One' with a sweet, dreamy sense of drift."^[13]