Edinburgh Jazz
Festival
by Jim Gilchrist
The Scotsman, August 2, 2002
The amazing Preston Reed takes a spectacularly
idiosyncratic, double-handed attack to the fretboard,
churning it like a piano and using the rest of the
instrument as a percussion section. In his agile hands, a
jaunty finger-picking blues evolved into something entirely
different and much darker, a piece inspired by Japan's
bullet train hammered along appropriately, while his homage
to 1970s funk, disco and fusion jazz was no spoof but a
hypnotic tour de force from not so much a guitarist as a
Well-Above-Average White One-Man Band.