New York Times - Peter Watrous "Mr. Stripling stopped the show." (6/19/98) "Mr. Stripling is a powerful trumpeter, at ease with the most complicated and detailed bebop lines and an open-armed Armstrong swagger." (12/22/89)

Los Angeles Times - Charles Champlin "...one of the weekend's remarkable debuts ... was Byron Stripling, a towering and powerful trumpet player, who has been compared to a later Louis Armstrong, but whose lightning runs and startling intervals are right out of bop. When he played ... the effect was an abbreviated history of jazz in two choruses."

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Peter B. King "Byron Stripling blew some butter-toned, full-vibrato high-register trumpet that was the most direct conjuring of Gillespie by any of the trumpeters last night."

San Francisco Examiner - Phillip Elwood "... trumpeter Byron Stripling brought down the house with his uproarious singing of 'Minnie The Moocher," which became a lusty audience sing-along."

Chicago Tribune - Howard Reich "... Stripling, a charismatic soloist... The outsized tone and flamboyant virtuosity he brought to Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night In Tunisia" and the lyric poetry he expressed in "I Can't Get Started" set a high standard..."


Boston Herald - Bob Young "... Stripling let loose with a fusillade of roaring notes that nearly blew down the piano top ­ and he was standing off in a corner 15 feet from the microphone."

The Denver Post - Jeff Bradley "Trumpeter Byron Stripling wailed New Orleans-style but also negotiated bebop runs like Kenny Dorham and had the ... audience shouting for joy with his earthy blues singing."

Saint Paul Pioneer Press - Bob Protzman "Stripling has... a strong pure tone well into the upper register, superb control (demonstrated time and time again on long held notes) and a fluid attack that produced lengthy, well articulated melodic lines. No mere showoff, however, he played with laudable taste and musicality..."

New York Post - Lee Jeske "... the show was constantly stolen by the bristling virtuosity of Marsalis, Faddis and Stripling, who kicked things off in fine style with Louis Armstrong's 'West End Blues'."

Village Voice - Gary Giddins "... and Byron Stripling, the leading Armstrong-legatee of the '90s, playing Pops, Pops, and more Pops ­ not just the tunes, mind you, but the feeling, the ideas, the erotic glow."

Los Angeles Times- Leonard Feather "In between were Clark Terry, Freddy Hubbard, the Brazilian Claudio Roditi and the impassioned, high-powered Byron Stripling."