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Leslie Pintchik: So Glad To Be Here

Read "So Glad To Be Here" reviewed by Elliott Simon


Pianist Leslie Pintchik and her bassist/husband, Scott Hardy, have invited percussionist Satoshi Takeishi into their cozy fold for a distinctive staging of the traditional jazz piano trio. The recipe succeeds, surprisingly well at times, as Takeishi adds his singular voice to Pintchik's melodic playing on So Glad to Be Here. Although the Kern/Hammerstein opener, ...

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So Glad to Be Here

Label: Ambient Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: All the Things You Are; You Keep Coming Back Like a Song; Scamba; Hopperesque; Let's Get Lucky; Happy Dog; Mortal; Terse Tune; Luscious; SOmething Lost; We See

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Leslie Pintchik: So Glad To Be Here

Read "So Glad To Be Here" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone


As album debuts go, So Glad To Be Here is a noteworthy one for pianist Leslie Pintchik and her trio. The album begins with two standards and ends with Monk's “We See." Everything else is a Pintchik original, with one composition from bassist Scott Hardy.The pianist was a graduate student at Columbia University pursuing ...

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Leslie Pintchik: So Glad to Be Here

Read "So Glad to Be Here" reviewed by Virginia A. Schaefer


Pianist and composer Leslie Pintchik has played clubs in New York for several years, and it shows in the natural approach that predominates on this her first release. She gives plenty of space to skillful bassist Scott Hardy, who's also her husband, and to drummer Satoshi Takeishi, whose style is imaginative yet unobtrusive. The three players ...

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Leslie Pintchik: So Glad to Be Here

Read "So Glad to Be Here" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


It's happened to a lot of us, getting hit really hard by the music of Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. Most of us, though, don't--after taking the hit--give up the beginnings of a promising career in academia to pursue jazz full bore; but that's what pianist Leslie Pintchik did, and So Glad to Be Here is ...

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Leslie Pintchik: So Glad to Be Here

Read "So Glad to Be Here" reviewed by John Kelman


Joining the ranks of the heavily-populated piano trio format is a risky proposition, especially within the mainstream because there are, quite simply, so many players out there mining the same space that unless one has something new to say or a radically new approach, one runs the very real risk of becoming just another one of ...


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