"Marty Krystall is one of the most passionate, powerfully swinging, and just plain unselfconsciously original players in all of jazz." - Nat Hentoff
"Man, thatt's some MEAN tenor you're blowin'." - Julian Cannonball Adderly
"Marty, I never thought I'd meet someone like you in a place like this." - Sonny Rollins, at a supermarket in Marina Del Rey, CA
