What They're Saying ...

"One of the most tasteful and accomplished mandolinists anywhere." - Acoustic Musician

"Equally at home playing traditional hard-driving bluegrass, haunting Latin melodies or string jazz ... one of the best." - Bluegrass Canada

"Mandolin fireworks from an underrated great." - Boulder Daily Camera

"One of the top performers and composers in acoustic music . . . complete command of his instrument's voice." - Bluegrass Unlimited

"Reischman's playing is fluid, deft and inventive." - Georgia Straight

"Bluegrass master . . . Reischman's lightning-fast hands were a miracle to behold." - The Vancouver Sun

"He is consistently inventive, exciting and clean, and head and shoulders above most bluegrass players in sophistication." - Option Magazine

"Relaxed but powerful style . . . Generating maximum tone from his mandolin, Reischman plays with a wonderfully warm sound . . . elegantly understated." - Frets Magazine

"His distinctive quality is his ability to handle very complicated chord changes with an ease and sensitivity that gives the best moments of his solos a strikingly beautiful sound. Instead of playing over or around the chords, John threads his way right through them. Only a handful of artists have developed this ability." - Mandolin World News

"In one solo, he quoted Bill Evans and Wes Montgomery, flew through a Jerry Garcia pentatonic run, and hinted at both Bach and ragtime, but never once lost sight of the melody . . . it was a virtuoso performance." - The Georgia Straight