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Bob Gluck
Bob Gluck is an expressive pianist joining lyricism and abstraction, and an innovator in the use of electronics.
About Me
Bob Gluck is a pianist, composer, and writer whose repertoire spans jazz and electroacoustic music. Karl
Ackermann (All About Jazz) wrote: “As a composer and player, Gluck ranks with the likes of Andrew Hill and
Cecil Taylor.” Ackermann describes Gluck's 2024 recording “And Every Fleck of Russet” as “an exceptional
musical and technical achievement…” Jazz Review describes his recording “Returning” (FMR, 2011) as
displaying “an intensity and sensitivity that is spellbinding.” The New York City Jazz Record notes finds in his
”Infinite Spirit: Revisiting Music of the Mwandishi Band” (FRM, 2016) - recorded with with Billy Hart, Eddie
Henderson, and Christopher Dean Sullivan - “moments of pure poetry and ecstasy from all members of the
quartet. Like Hancock, Gluck is a master of electronics, as well as a talented acoustic jazz pianist… a fresh and
personal imprint on complex music and propelling it into the present day.”
Gluck's third book from University of Chicago Press, “Pat Metheny: Stories Beyond Words” (2024) is the
successor to “You’ll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band” (2012), and “The
Miles Davis ‘Lost’ Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles” (2016). “The Musical World of Paul Winter” was
published by Terra Nova Editions in 2025.
The latest of Gluck's fourteen recordings, “Transcendence Plays Music of Pat Metheny” (2025, with bassist
Christopher Dean Sullivan and drummer Karl Latham) is among his five releases on the FMR label. “Early
Morning Star” (2020) features Andrea Wolper, Kinan Azmeh, Ken Filiano, and Tani Tabbal. He has also released
three sets of duets on Ictus Records, with drummer Tani Tabbal (”At This Time: Duets,” 2017), saxophonist
Andrew Sterman (”Tropelets,” 2014), and fellow pianist Aruan Ortiz (”Textures and Pulsations,” 2012).
Bob Gluck’s collaborators have included Tani Tabbal, Billy Hart, Christopher Dean Sullivan, Ken Filiano,
Joe Giardullo, Eddie Henderson, Ras Moshe Burnett, Aruan Ortiz, Neil Rolnick, Dean Sharp, Andrew Sterman,
Eddie Allen, Michael Bisio, and Jane Ira Bloom. He is Professor Emeritus at The University at Albany. For
more info, see: http://www.electricsongs.com.
