'Cartoon Hepcats with the cracked conviction of 5 Harpo Marxes. What they play is admirably free of Berklee-school cliches, as painterly as their outrageous suits. Perry White's speed and abruptness was intoxicating. Richard Underhill's alto is a real treat, with a swinging door post-Arthur Blythe attack, his ideas both raw and coherent. Dave Parker is a more relaxed player, but again it's so fresh as if boring jazz never existed. ' - Ben Watson, Wire Magazine 1990

"John Cougar Mellencamp is sold out? See the Shuffle Demons instead. They have three saxes, they play the wackiest Jazz this side of Tupelo Chain Sex, and they wear spiffy duds. If John Coltrane met the Flintstones on the road to Morocco with Jack Keroac, it wouldn't be any more interesting." - Georgia Straight (Vancouver 6/88)

"Audacity isn't a Quality easily committed to vinyl, but Toronto's Shuffle Demons, who have routinely beaten the odds on the way to becoming one of the most appealing success stories of this country's jazz scene, beats them again. The country may never be the same." - Mark Miller, Globe and Mail, (Thursday, June 26/86).

"The Demons captured this re-awakened festival perfectly, mixing their beatnik shtick and dashiki threads with genuinely funky, good-time sounds that put thousands at the foot of their stage in a solid mood to party" - The Ottawa Citizen (July 22/87).

"St. Denis (Street) had turned into a general alarm party. A crowd that would swell to an estimated 50,000 before night's end split its collective attention between jugglers, itinerant musicians, and Toronto's Shuffle Demons, long-time street-wise gurus who set St. Denis afire with their vamping." - The Montreal Gazette, Montreal Jazz Festival. (July 2/87).

"Outrageous and irresistible pretty well sums up the snow No matter where the music went, the dance floor was packed and people were moving in their seats and in the aisles. Bring back the Shuffle Demons soon and often." - The Ottawa Citizen (October 13/87).

"The first thing you notice is the regalia, The second thing you notice, very quickly, is the music. These guys can play - bebop, TV and movie themes, rock classics and originals, all done with a vivacious sense of style." - Mark Miller, The Globe and Mail, (September 28/85).

"The Shuffle Demons did commit musical arson with such international hits as "Blue Mustard", "I Mean You", and "Salt Peanuts". - Val Clery, The Toronto Star. (September 19/85)

Shuffle Demons, che spasso ! I regazzi di Toronto sono una micidiale bomba di allegria Spettacoli, Genoa

Les Shuffle Demons: Une joyeuse descente aux enfersŠla groupe gonflent tous leurs boyaux pour atteindre un public extra-jazz. Alain Brunet La Presse, Montreal

A considerably but pleasantly disturbed group. Like a white Fishbone on a heavy jazz trip or Defunkt in too-narrow ballet shoes. Deservedly, the audience loved it. Het Nieuwsblad National - Cactus festival

Ils sont néanmoins porteurs d'un jazz les plus originaux au pays, sorte de tutti frutti artistique qui valse allegrenment du bop au funk, en passant par fee et le rap. Qualitié assure, tout autant qu' solide party d'ailleurs. Patrick Marsolais, Le Voir, Montreal.

The most current modernism and music reaching to a new direction was the unexpected serving of the last band of the festival, The Shuffle Demons. Turun Sanomat, Tampere Jazz Happening.

The Shuffle Demons: derivaciones del jazzŠ.en sus instrumentos y los ritmos funky comparten su esppacio vital con resonancias tradicionales y les sirieron parar armar su espectáculo, pues como tal lo asumió el público que se divertió con ellos y aplaudió los solos de Demons y el baterista. La Gramma.

De Shuffle Demons swingden als duivels en waren ongetwijfeld de revelatie van de dag. De Shuffle Demons kunnen met gemak enkele superlatieven worden bovengehaald. Een fabuleuze drummer en een kontrabassist die zijn instrument op alle mogelijke manieren atbeult, werden getlankeerd door drie saxofonisten, die nu eens dissonant, dan weer in harmonie, maar altijd gekscherend en dodelijk akkuraat speelden. Antwepse Morgen

Shuffle Demon: euphorisants! Saxophones en liberté Le Progress/Lyon

They have three saxes, they play the wackiest Jazz this side of Tupelo Chain Sex, and they wear spiffy duds. If John Coltrane met the Flintstones on the road to Morocco with Jack Keroac, it wouldn't be any more interesting." Georgia Straight - Vancouver