With Prayer for What Remains, her first release since 2019, pianist Leslie Pintchik once again, with the assistance of her deeply connected bandmates, delivers engaging music notable as much for its intelligence as its emotional eloquence and scope.
Pianist Russ Lossing’s astonishing quartet brings his idiosyncratic compositions to life on Metamorphism, with adventurous, expressive jazz that feeds the brain and the heart.
Leslie Pintchik. Photo by Jimmy Katz.
Pianist/composer Leslie Pintchik has done it again, turning out yet another elevating musical experience on her latest album, You Eat My Food, You Drink My Wine, You Steal My Girl! (available 2/23). The album’s title comes from a snatch of overheard conversation on a Manhattan street, and its humor, underlaid with angst, perfectly suits the funky title track, a new Pintchik composition, which opens the album. Continue reading