Results for "Ambient Records"

Quartets

By Leslie Pintchik

Label: Ambient Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Happy Days Are Here Again; Too Close For Comfort; A Simpler Time; Not So Fast; Over Easy; Private Moment; Fugu; Small Pleasures; Somewhere/Berimbau.

Concerti

By Gene Bertoncini

Label: Ambient Records
Released: 2008
Track listing:

East of the Sun; You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To; For Chet; Eleanor Rigby; Every Time We Say Goodbye; Prelude (excerpt-Opus 28#4)/How Insensitive; Invitation; Concerto de Aranjuez (adagio)/Spain.

Gene Bertoncini: Concerti

by Michael P. Gladstone
October 15, 2008

What could possibly be better than hearing guitarist extraordinaire Gene Bertoncini on Concerti? Simply, being ten feet away from the bandstand and viewing his quicksilver style of playing, astounding an appreciative audience. Bertoncini, over the course of several decades, has become an elder statesman plectrist, working in a number of settings--solo, duet, trio ...

Gene Bertoncini: Concerti

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 29, 2008

Il chitarrista americano Gene Bertoncini ha alle spalle una lunghissima carriera a metà fra il jazz e la musica classica, senza dimenticare il suo lavoro come session man per sedute legate al cinema e alla musica commerciale e senza scordare la sua pluridecennale attività didattica. A settant’anni dimostra con questo lavoro di essere ancora in gran ...

Gene Bertoncini: Concerti

by Laurel Gross
June 9, 2008

At 70, guitarist Gene Bertoncini continues to make standards and classics breathe and shimmer, inviting listeners to experience them in new ways. On Concerti, his considerable skill at navigating a nylon-stringed guitar are complemented by a group of highly capable string players and clever arrangements, all crucial to this winning endeavor. Engineer Mark Conese deserves mention ...

Gene Bertoncini: Concerti

by Dan McClenaghan
May 30, 2008

Concerti is twenty-six strings vibrating: A string quartet--two violins, a viola and a cello--with a bass added on the bottom end, fronted by the nylon-string acoustic guitar of Gene Bertoncini.A top notch guitarist who has taught for forty years at the Eastman School of Music, Bertoncini enlisted some of his colleagues from the school ...

Leslie Pintchik: Quartets

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 ...

Leslie Pintchik: Quartets

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 ...

Leslie Pintchik: Quartets

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 ...

Leslie Pintchik: Quartets

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 ...