January 2008-"Trumpeter Gregory Rivkin leads salute to Shaw" Interview from "The Star ledger" August 2007 -"Coltrane feted by contemporaries in West Orange" OSPAC amphitheater , Review from "The Star Ledger". June 2006 Performance in Carnegie Hall, Universal Affair Concert. Review from "New York Concert Review". 2007 "Musical America International" journal feature. Prestige Artist Management L.L.C. Catalog Feature. 2003 Harvie S. "Texas Rumba" recording. Feature in the original liner notes. 2003 Carmine Caruso International Jazz Competition Catalog Feature. 2003 Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Competition. Final Round. Performance Review, featured in the International Trumpet Guild Journal.

...Gregory Rivkin has that “Blue Note” sound of 60-ies, which is pretty unusual to our days...

-Hal Galper, Pianist and Educator

...Lyrical , nicely -flowing and hard swinging lines in true-bop fashion, very reminiscent of Freddy Hubbard,    Lee Morgan and Woody Shaw.

-International Trumpet Guild Journal

...Gregory Rivkin sounds like the trumpeter, who use to work in my band-Clifford Brown…

-Lou Donaldson, Saxophonist, Jazz Legend

...Gregory Rivkin is an outstandingly talented musician…a virtuoso trumpet player…

-Vera Stern, President America-Israel Cultural Foundation

...Mr. Rivkin is a musical genius and has an exceptional knowledge of both classical and jazz traditions ...An extraordinary trumpet-player…

-Paul Mercer Ellington, Leader and Conductor Duke Ellington Orchestra

...Beautiful sound… An excellent musician- one of my best students…

-Guy Touvron, World Acclaimed Soloist

...Unusually warm timbre and graceful performance of most challenging passages.

...The "talking" sound of Gregory Rivkin's trumpet carries away the spirits of each audience member up to their private innermost spheres.

...The Family Duet of pianist Karina Bruk and trumpeter Gregory Rivkin presents a remarkable "filigreed" brilliance.

-Lora Berezovsky, Forum, New York