'Ed Riches  has  a  busy  international  touring  schedule  of  regular  performances  with  award-winning  vocalists  including:  Bilal, Zara McFarlane, Marsha Ambrosius and N’Dambi' - Jazz fm
'British Jazz Guitarist Ed Riches has worked with numerous Grammy, Mobo & BBC award winners and plays concerts and festivals across Europe and beyond' - The Financial Times
'Ed Riches is a guitarist who is quickly  building  a  stellar  reputation' - Collage Arts
'A striking mixture of Soul-Jazz, country-blues, gospel and hip hop' - The List
'Impeccable, breath-taking playing from this Tintin lookalike 
​playing like there's no tomorrow' - Funk-U Magazine, France
'London's  Go - To  Guitarist'  -  606 Jazz Club
'Extraordinary skills' - Pop Killer Magazine
'Impressive Chops' - The Times, UK
'Sensational' - Yamaha UK
'A-List'  -  Jazzwise Magazine
'Crack Ace' - Blues & Soul Magazine
'Soaring Electric Guitar' - The Jazzman
'Excellent  musicianship'   -  Gilles Peterson
'A special mention to Ed Riches on guitar: Pivotal' - UK Vibe
'Expect  Sonic  Cookery of the First  Order' - The Sampler, Sound&Music
'Guitarist  Ed  Riches  excelled  with  his  great  solos' - Szczecin Glowny, Poland
'His level of musical understanding and attunement inspires admiration' - JazzSoul
'Ed Riches came and made a guitar sing so beautifully I had tears in my eyes' - BBE Music
'A cross between Seventies  jazz, Eighties  soul, Nineties R'n'B  and Noughties  electro' - MTV
'A refined technique, a unique tone, a deep grasp of harmony and an instinct for melody' - The FT
'Gorgeous solos, temperature changes, melting into free jazz, then returning to the melody... having rehearsed for only 2 days, it seemed just as if they had played together for years: without error and everything with total precision' - Cream Magazine, Czech Republic
'A fantastic musician; very modern, part eccentric soul,
more in jazz, with elements of hip hop' - SubText, Austria
'The interplay between the musicians was given a new
lease of life by Ed Riches' brilliant guitar' - Kingsize Magazine, Sweden
'The  opening  chords  were  pure  indie rock ... For pure musical
enjoyment  I  can't  recall  seeing  much  better  than  this'   -   Bristol Post
'Not only able to play within individual standard tracks but also to draw from 
them impromptu inspiration for tasty sonic digressions'  -   Indiana Music Magazine, Italy
'Ed Riches on guitar is excellent - guess that's why he plays with Bilal!'  -  Jazz Re:freshed
'The Syncopation had been ramped up to maximum, with stops and missed beats that
gave you a full-on-roller-coaster-stomach-drop before catching you mid-air' - The Jazz Standard
'There is great sensitivity in the handling of the material...A.Coltrane's Isis & Osiris' majestic quality is enhanced by the hovering, almost airborne character of legato phrases' - Jazzwise Magazine