'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
'One of London's best young jazzers' - Jazz Cafe, London
'Expect Sonic Cookery of the First Order' - The Sampler, Sound&Music
'Ed Riches on guitar is excellent, that's why he plays with Bilal'-JazzRe:freshed
'A refined technique, a unique tone, a deep grasp of harmony & an instinct for melody' - Financial Times
'A cross between Seventies jazz, Eighties soul, Nineties R'n'B and Noughties electro' - MTV
'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 special mention to Ed Riches on guitar: Pivotal' - UK Vibe
'Guitarist Ed Riches excelled with his great solos' - Szczecin Glowny, Poland
'Ed Riches has a busy international touring schedule of regular performances with award-winning vocalists including: Bilal, Zara McFarlane, Marsha Ambrosius & N’Dambi' - Jazz fm
'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
'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
'Excellent musicianship' - Gilles Peterson
'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
'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
'fragmented rhythms glitching and juddering...folky guitar licks bob and weave' - Jazzwise
'an in-depth multitude of improvisation, electronic, noise, contemporary classical & sound art. BombyxMori featured just guitar & saxophone and was one of the mellower moments of the Ideas of Noise stage. It leaned more towards the free jazz side, with still a fair amount of electronica involved.
The performance was unquestionably interesting'- PopMatters
'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
'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
'One of London's best young jazzers' - Jazz Cafe, London
'Expect Sonic Cookery of the First Order' - The Sampler, Sound&Music
'Ed Riches on guitar is excellent, that's why he plays with Bilal'-JazzRe:freshed
'A refined technique, a unique tone, a deep grasp of harmony & an instinct for melody' - Financial Times
'A cross between Seventies jazz, Eighties soul, Nineties R'n'B and Noughties electro' - MTV
'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 special mention to Ed Riches on guitar: Pivotal' - UK Vibe
'Guitarist Ed Riches excelled with his great solos' - Szczecin Glowny, Poland
'Ed Riches has a busy international touring schedule of regular performances with award-winning vocalists including: Bilal, Zara McFarlane, Marsha Ambrosius & N’Dambi' - Jazz fm
'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
'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
'Excellent musicianship' - Gilles Peterson
'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
'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
'fragmented rhythms glitching and juddering...folky guitar licks bob and weave' - Jazzwise
'an in-depth multitude of improvisation, electronic, noise, contemporary classical & sound art. BombyxMori featured just guitar & saxophone and was one of the mellower moments of the Ideas of Noise stage. It leaned more towards the free jazz side, with still a fair amount of electronica involved.
The performance was unquestionably interesting'- PopMatters
'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
