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News: Award / Grant

Jazz Pianist and Composer Eric Mintel Becomes Yamaha Artist

November 13, 2007

As of October 22, 2007 pianist and composer, Eric Mintel, has achieved status as a “Yamaha Artist" endorsing Yamaha acoustic pianos and Yamaha keyboards. This is very prestigious honor given to very few artists. “As most people know I've been working steadily for the last 15 plus years of bringing more jazz to a general public ...

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Article: Opinion

Eric Mintel: The Way of Jazz

by Eric Mintel
March 28, 2004

For the past ten years I have led my quartet with many great performing opportunities. I've been playing the piano practically from the time I could crawl. My parents could always find me sitting at the piano and making up my own melodies. Composing came very early in life. Now at age 36, I ...

Album

Hopscotch

By Eric Mintel

Label: EJM
Released: 2002
Track listing: Hopscotch; Forty Days; Swingin' on a Sunday; Japanese Maple; Caribbean Moonlight; Dance of the Beautiful; Philadelphia Blues; To Jobim; Fall Waltz; Strollin'; Caravan

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Article: Album Review

Eric Mintel Quartet: Hopscotch

Read "Hopscotch" reviewed by Dave Nathan

by Dave Nathan
May 1, 2002

Eric Mintel's 4th album features the leader/pianist's compositions except for Dave Brubeck's 1968 penned rarely recorded “Forty Days" and the Duke Ellington/Juan Tizol classic “Caravan". Brubeck's work is an interesting one. It's from a religious oratorio “The Light in the Wilderness". Mintel and group capture the religious intensity of the piece as Neil Wetzel plays with ...

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Live!

By Eric Mintel

Label:
Released: 2001
Track listing: Swing Time; Beautiful Love; Chant; Boogie Sugar!; These Foolish Things; Take Five; Modal Music

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Article: Album Review

Eric Mintel Quartet: Live!

by Dave Nathan
July 1, 2001

Eric Mintel's previous albums have shown his attachment to the Dave Brubeck Quartet. While in this his third album he doesn't entirely discard the influence of his icon, there is a decidedly more modern bent to the music. This advanced approach is due in good part to the presence of the hard bop sax of Neil ...