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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 ...

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Leslie Pintchik: Quartets

Read "Quartets" reviewed by Christopher Shoe

by Christopher Shoe
November 9, 2007

Leslie Pintchik is a newer face on the jazz scene and Quartets is a respectable contribution that keeps in tide with her growing reputation. Pintchik's approach to jazz does not rely on flashy lines or complex chordal movement like many of her peers; instead, it focuses on strong improvised material backed by a solid group of musicians who both complement her and add their own voice when the time comes for them to solo. Quartets is no ...

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Leslie Pintchik: Quartets

Read "Quartets" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 16, 2007

Pianist Leslie Pintchik, an adept interpreter of American Songbook classics and a composer of beautifully melodic tunes, emerged on the jazz scene in 2004 with the trio set So Glad to Be Here (Ambient Records). AAJer John Kelman, in his review of the disc, wrote of her inhabiting a “dangerously occupied middle ground, [with] a trick up her sleeve...Satoshi Takeishi."On Quartets Pintchik pulls Takeishi out of that sleeve again on five of the nine tracks, along with drummer ...

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Anthony Braxton Quintet: (London) 2004 - Live At The Royal Festival Hall

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 16, 2007

Live at the Royal Festival Hall è una registrazione del 15 Novembre 2004 dell'Anthony Braxton Quintet [nuova formazione di Braxton che vede coinvolti nuovi, giovani, brillanti e validi musicisti]. Alle perle presenti nel catalogo della Leo Records - che ormai conta davvero buona parte della musica di Braxton - si aggiungano le due “parti" di questa “Composition 343". In quasi sessanta minuti ritroviamo la nota musica braxtoniana rinnovata nell'essenza dalle diverse esperienze musicali che vi riversano i componenti del Quintetto. ...