"...a composer of emotional depth and effortless lyricism... not every jazz pianist can keep an audience at rapt attention with mostly unfamiliar material. Pintchik can and did... she's out to weave a spell, and this she does as well as anyone on the scene... her tunes are subtle, intriguing and seductive, not-so-buried treasures waiting to be recognized and discovered by other jazz artists."
DownBeat (review of a performance at Jazz at Kitano by Allen Morrison)
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"A crafty, lyrically minded improviser and a compelling composer..."
The New Yorker (Steve Futterman) |
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"a stunning assortment of the bandleader's originals."
DownBeat (review of Same Day Delivery... by Hobart Taylor) |
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"a creative composer, inventive arranger and sublime improviser."
NYC Jazz Record (review of Same Day Delivery... by Ken Dryden) |
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"...exquisitely beautiful...elegant and heartfelt...Leslie Pintchik creates a rich palette of music that is discerning, unexpected and always inviting."
NYC Jazz Record (review of You Eat My Food... by Donald Elfman) |
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"Leslie plays with complete engagement... [she] brings depth and thought to everything she plays. "
JazzWax.com (review of You Eat My Food... by Marc Myers) |
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"I don't know if she tap-dances and can eradicate world poverty, but she's put together a really splendid, life-affirming album."
Musicweb-International.com (review of You Eat My Food... by Jonathan Woolf) |
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"Leslie Pintchik's music has a magical draw to it.... Her pieces...have a way of registering and resonating both with the pleasure center of the brain and the heart... Getting lost in this music is simply a joy. If 2016 has a more pleasurable listen to offer than True North, this writer hasn't heard it yet. (4 1/2 stars)"
AllAboutJazz.com (review of True North by Dan Bilawsky) |
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"Pianist and composer Leslie Pintchik is one of the finest bandleaders in the field of straight-ahead jazz right now, someone who not only writes with inventive wit and a keen melodic sense, but who also consistently draws the best out of her band members. Six originals, four standards (including a limpidly gorgeous rendition of the Mancini/Mercer composition “Charade”), every one of them a gem. "
CD HotList (review of True North by Rick Anderson) |
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"one of the more captivating recordings to come out so far this year..."
The New Yorker (review of In The Nature Of Things by Steve Futterman) |
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"...a gorgeous display of the trio..."
WBGO Radar
(review of In The Nature Of Things by WBGO music director Gary Walker)
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"... Pintchik's music is fresh, full
of light and instantly invigorating (4 stars)"
Downbeat Magazine (review of So Glad To Be Here by Ken Micallef)
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"... achingly beautiful. I truly felt throughout the album she was having a conversation with me, the listener -- a level of intimacy that is rare today in jazz."
JazzWax.com (review of In The Nature Of Things by Marc Myers)
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"This is the mark of a true artist."
AllAboutJazz.com (review of In The Nature Of Things by Dr. Judith Schlesinger)
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