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Eric Mintel and the Eric Mintel Quartet have cultivated one of the most distinctive styles in jazz, combining an exciting and delicate lyrical sense with a powerful and dramatic musical force. Going beyond the traditional forms and standard techniques of American jazz, this quartet is changing the landscape of jazz and broadening its audience.

The EMQ performed by special request of former President Bill Clinton at the White House and has had over eleven concerts at the Kennedy Center including one for American and Japanese Delegates with First Lady Laura Bush in attendance. Eric was a featured guest on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on NPR, the Quartet performed and sold a 3 CD boxed set of Eric's music on QVC. They have performed at many jazz festivals including the JVC Jazz Festival, Hartford Jazz Festival, Mellon Jazz Festival and Savannah Jazz Fest to name a few. The EMQ has been featured on the PIX11 National News in New York City and they have also been featured in Down Beat, Jazz Times Magazines and recently in the Wall Street Journal.

The Eric Mintel Quartet's music is frequently heard on XM Satellite Radio (Real Jazz XM 70) and various jazz stations across the country. The Eric Mintel Quartet continue to provide educational opportunities for the next generation of jazz musicians through concerts, clinics and workshops for students from elementary through college level. Eric Mintel is constantly writing new challenging music which teases the intellect and soothes the soul. The Eric Mintel Quartet deliver thrilling performances and in doing so have endeared them to a new generation of jazz fans.

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Album Review

Eric Mintel: Ground Breaker

Read "Ground Breaker" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


The title of a record may be misleading, and even when it promises more than it delivers, it doesn't necessarily mean that the music is of poor quality. Eric Mintel's Ground Breaker does no such thing but it is a solid, well above average effort in the post bop tradition.

The original tunes are all complex, intricate compositions by Mintel, allowing each musician plenty of solo space. The music has the loose swinging beat of 1950s Blue Note recordings, but ...

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Take Five With Eric Mintel

Read "Take Five With Eric Mintel" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Eric Mintel: Eric Mintel and the Eric Mintel Quartet have cultivated a distinctive style in jazz, combining an exciting and delicate lyrical sense with a powerful and dramatic musical force. Going beyond the traditional forms and standard techniques of American jazz, this quartet is changing the landscape of jazz and broadening its audience. Instrument(s): piano, alto sax, bass and drumsTeachers and/or influences? Dave Brubeck Bill Evans Duke Ellington Michel Camilo Chick Corea Marian McPartland Bob ...

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Opinion

Eric Mintel: The Way of Jazz

Read "Eric Mintel: The Way of Jazz" reviewed by Eric Mintel


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 have a full time and very successful jazz quartet, a top 100 CD titled Hopscotch , a loyal following, performed at the White House ...

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Album Review

Eric Mintel Quartet: Hopscotch

Read "Hopscotch" reviewed by Dave Nathan


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 both fervor and passion. A close listen catches a few bars of Brubeck's more familiar work, “In Your Own Sweet Way".

This album gives ...

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Eric Mintel Quartet: Live!

Read "Live!" reviewed by Dave Nathan


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 Wetzel.

The play list has four Mintel originals, a couple of standby classics and Mintel's nod to Brubeck, Desmond's classic “Take Five". As is ...

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Bucks County’s Jazz Ambassador’s Eric Mintel lands new Jazz TV Talk show!

Bucks County’s Jazz Ambassador’s Eric Mintel lands new Jazz TV Talk show!

Source: All About Jazz

Bucks County’s Pennsylvania’s own, pianist and composer Eric Mintel has just landed the opportunity of a lifetime and a personal mission he has led for the past 25 years as bandleader of the Eric Mintel Quartet. In January Mintel will host his own TV show called Talking Jazz with Eric Mintel. The show will be taped out of TV30 in Princeton, NJ and will feature jazz musicians but will also focus on people behind the scenes, organizations, non profit groups ...

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Jazz Bridge Third Thursday Concert Series In Willingboro, NJ Presents Pianist Eric Mintel And His Quartet

Jazz Bridge Third Thursday Concert Series In Willingboro, NJ Presents Pianist Eric Mintel And His Quartet

Source: Bruce Klauber

Jazz Bridge Third Thursday Concert Series in Willingboro, NJ presents pianist Eric Mintel and his Quartet at the Willingboro Library—220 Willingboro Way in Willingboro Township—on Thursday, January 15. Tickets are $10, $5 for students and show time is 7:30 p.m. Information: 215-517-8337. Pianist/composer/bandleader/recording artist Eric Mintel—one of the foremost exponents of the music of Dave Brubeck—was playing Brubeck compositions, and playing them well, at the age of 15. The Eric Mintel Quartet has played for presidents Clinton and Obama, on ...

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Eric Mintel Quartet At The Deer Head Inn 10/13

Eric Mintel Quartet At The Deer Head Inn 10/13

Source: Dave Mohn

Join Eric Mintel and his Quartet at the Deer Head Inn Saturday October 13th from 7:00pm to 11:00pm and help them celebrate their new release Just Around the Corner. Call the Deer Head for reservations 570-424-2000 The band will play music from Just Around the Corner as well as music from previously releases including the Tribute to Dave Brubeck. The new album features mostly all original music written and arranged by Eric Mintel, Nelson Hill and the band. Eric Mintel: ...

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Eric Mintel Quartet to Release New CD "Ground-Breaker"

Eric Mintel Quartet to Release New CD "Ground-Breaker"

Source: All About Jazz

If you were traveling on Swamp Road near Buckingham Bucks County, PA the other day and noticed four guys being photographed on the pristine grounds of Superior Turf and Landscape it wasn't a team of UFO Researchers that have come to our area, it was an Eric Mintel Quartet sighting during a photo shoot for their brand new CD Ground-Breaker scheduled for release on September 1. Ground-Breaker consists of all original songs written by the pianist and composer and Bucks ...

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Eric Mintel Quartet Presents the Music of Vince Guaraldi at the Hayes Center in Blowing Rock, NC

Eric Mintel Quartet Presents the Music of Vince Guaraldi at the Hayes Center in Blowing Rock, NC

Source: All About Jazz

Pianist and composer Vince Guaraldi has never been given the credit that he deserves for introducing an entire generation of music lovers to the joys of jazz music. Jazz purists probably hate to think about the huge number of listeners who first got hooked on jazz while watching Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus and Lucy dancing merrily by a sad little Christmas tree...but it's true. 42 years after the television debut of the holiday special A Charlie Brown Christmas, Vince Guaraldi's ...

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Award / Grant

Jazz Pianist and Composer Eric Mintel Becomes Yamaha Artist

Jazz Pianist and Composer Eric Mintel Becomes Yamaha Artist

Source: All About Jazz

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 as well as the jazzers out there. We are connecting with more and more people across the country through our music and our performances. ...

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The Eric Mintel Quartet Performs for the JVC Jazz Festival in Philadelphia June 8

The Eric Mintel Quartet Performs for the JVC Jazz Festival in Philadelphia June 8

Source: All About Jazz

JVC Jazz Festival and Festival Productions book pianist and composer Eric Mintel and the Eric Mintel Quartet Friday June 8th at 1:00pm with an In Store Performance at Macy's Center City Philadelphia.

The Eric Mintel Quartet will perform music from their brand new CD Times Change featuring Eric Mintel piano, Nelson Hill alto sax, soprano sax, flute, Dave Antonow upright and electric bass and Dave Mohn drums. The quartet will also be on hand for CD signings.

This incredible event ...

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First Annual Bristol (PA) Jazz Festival with the Eric Mintel Quartet

First Annual Bristol (PA) Jazz Festival with the Eric Mintel Quartet

Source: All About Jazz

An Evening with the Eric Mintel Quartet--as part of the First Annual Bristol Jazz Festival weekend. Pianist and composer Eric Mintel and the Eric Mintel Quartet are blazing a trail across the country with their energetic and melodic style of jazz.

Children's Concert Join the Eric Mintel Quartet at 2:00pm for a Children's Concert performing the music of Vince Guaraldi from the classic Charlie Brown Cartoons, music by Dave Brubeck and original compositions by Eric. Also included will ...

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TV / Film

Eric Mintel Quartet: Jazzing Up QVC

Eric Mintel Quartet: Jazzing Up QVC

Source: All About Jazz

On Monday November 14 at 2:00p.m. EST pianist and composer Eric Mintel and the Eric Mintel Quartet will appear on the popular shopping channel QVC. Jazz music is making an appearance for the first time ever on QVC and over 87 million households throughout the country will get a chance to see and hear the Eric Mintel Quartet as they pioneer this new endeavor with a 3 CD Boxed set of Eric's music just in time for the holidays. The ...

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Event

Eric Mintel Quartet: Arusha Lutheran Medical Center Benefit Concert

Eric Mintel Quartet: Arusha Lutheran Medical Center Benefit Concert

Source: All About Jazz

Arusha Lutheran Medical Center Benefit Concert at Trinity Lutheran Church, 1000 West Main Street, Lansdale PA 19446-1998

The Eric Mintel Quartet will perform a benefit concert and jazz workshop in Lansdale, PA for the Arusha Lutheran Medical Center located in Tanzania. This fund-raising concert sponsored by Trinity Lutheran of Lansdale, PA and St. John’s Lutheran Church of Phoenixville, PA will provide much needed financial support for the new hospital. The fundraising goal is $20,000 and $17,000 has already been raised. ...

"As long as the music attracts dedicated young musicians like Eric Mintel, jazz will continue to thrive and progress as a voice of freedom." -Dave Brubeck

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