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Leslie Pintchik Quartet: Live in Concert [CD/DVD]

Read "Live in Concert [CD/DVD]" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 16, 2011

La dimensione live esalta la dimensione swingante e collettiva di questo quartetto, che ama frequentare i classici territori di un mainstream classico ma efficace. Sono sette i brani interpretati, riproposti intelligentemente sia in DVD che in CD audio per produrre un duplice piacere sinestetico che investe occhi ed orecchie. In primo piano le morbide linee melodiche della pianista Lesile Pintchik, per far trasparire le godibili costruzioni armoniche delle composizioni originali. Ed in più una struttura ritmica solidissima ma condotta con ...

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Leslie Pintchik: We're Here to Listen

Read "We're Here to Listen" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
January 10, 2011

Leslie Pintchik inhabits an ocean of sound by herself and much more with her trio. The pianist creates her own ebb, and rip currents with the undulating swell of her playing. Her technique is flawless, and she has a natural tendency for irony, and even humor, as she simply spreads her hands on the keyboards and lets her fingers do the singing. She does, indeed, favor the vocal pursuit of music, as her songs unfurl like diaphanous arias swelling in ...

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Leslie Pintchik: We're Here To Listen

Read "We're Here To Listen" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
November 20, 2010

We're Here To Listen is composer and pianist Leslie Pintchik's third album. Grammatical pedants might feel that You're Here To Listen would be a more apposite title. However, Pintchik, who was once an English Literature teaching assistant at Columbia University, chose the title to emphasize the importance of musicians listening to each other as they perform, and the performances on We're Here To Listen lend an honesty to the title. This is an exquisite quartet with an understanding of each ...

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Leslie Pintchik: Quartets

Read "Quartets" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
March 28, 2008

How to keep the exacting piano-trio format fresh sounding? Leslie Pintchik rises to that challenge by making the trio a quartet. Not one or many quartets, but two quartets. The strategy is a successful one.On five tracks, pianist Pintchik, bassist Scott Hardy and drummer Mark Dodge are joined by percussionist Satoshi Takeishi (the brother of trumpeter Cuong Vu's pile-driving bassist Stomu Takeishi; the mind reels at the thought of a Takeishi-Takeishi duet). The idea here is not so ...

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Leslie Pintchik: Quartets

Read "Quartets" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 12, 2008

La pianista Leslie Pintchik si era già distinta con il suo brillante esordio discografico del 2004, grazie ad un trio insolito con chitarra e percussioni. È decisamente un’artista camaleontica, che non si adagia sulle forme consolidate del piano jazz. Lo dimostra ancora una volta il suo nuovo disco, in cui cambiano gli orizzonti timbrico-armonici della formula esplorata in precedenza. Due sono le formazioni impiegate, per evitare il ricorso allo scontato mainstream. Una dal respiro più swingante, con l’imponente sax alto ...

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Leslie Pintchik: Quartets

Read "Quartets" reviewed by Virginia A. Schaefer

by Virginia A. Schaefer
January 9, 2008

Both quartets on Quartets include pianist Leslie Pintchik, bassist Scott Hardy and drummer Mark Dodge. One quartet extends its percussion section with Satoshi Takeishi, who played drums and percussion on Pintchik's first release, So Glad to Be Here (Ambient Records, 2004). The other quartet features Steve Wilson on alto or soprano saxophone. A strength of this disc is its three standards, inventively arranged by Pintchik and Hardy. “Happy Days Are Here Again" moves at a stately pace, starting ...

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Leslie Pintchik: Quartets

Read "Quartets" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
December 15, 2007

For her second album, pianist Leslie Pintchik has chosen an unusual musical motif. While her debut, Glad to be Here (Ambient, 2004), featured a piano trio, Quartets presents two distinctly different ensembles: one with Pintchik, alongside percussionist Satoshi Takeishi, bassist Scott Hardy and drummer Mark Dodge; the other with alto/soprano saxophonist, Steve Wilson replacing Takeishi. The music of the two quartets is quite different: Wilson is the primary voice of the four songs--all written by Pintchik--on which he appears, making ...