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. With the endorsement from Yamaha, I'll not only have a quality company behind me but now have the resources to bring jazz to a much wider audience with the three other incredibly talented individuals in my quartet", said Mintel from his home in Feasterville, PA. The announcement is on the Eric Mintel Quartet's web site at http://www.EricMintelQuartet.com and will soon appear on the Yamaha's Artists website.
Eric Mintel and the Eric Mintel Quartet are blazing a trail in jazz and connecting with more and more of a general public through their style of jazz. Eric was recognized by President Bill Clinton when Eric and the Quartet were invited to perform at the White House in December 1998. The quartet recently performed and sold their CD's on the QVC television network and recently performed for the JVC Jazz Festival in Philadelphia where they were also featured in a full page ad for the festival in the June issue of Jazz Times Magazine. Eric was a featured guest last year on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on NPR. Eric has also been interviewed by Down Beat Magazine and was recently given a stellar review of his CD Live @ XM by jazz writer Scott Yanow. The Eric Mintel Quartet are currently celebrating the release of their latest CD Times Change which features mostly originals written by Eric, songs by Dave Brubeck and a tune by Marian McPartland that Marian herself asked Eric to record. Liner notes were also written by Dave Brubeck. Not only are the Eric Mintel Quartet connecting with the listening audience but they are heavily involved in jazz education and frequently conduct work shops and residencies on jazz and the business of jazz. “Jazz is a way of life for me. I love the piano and I love to play jazz and sharing it with our audience is the greatest feeling in the world. Hopefully in some small way we're bringing jazz back to the public conscience where it belongs. I just celebrated my 40th birthday and I'm energized more than ever for jazz", said Mintel.
Eric Mintel and the Eric Mintel Quartet are blazing a trail in jazz and connecting with more and more of a general public through their style of jazz. Eric was recognized by President Bill Clinton when Eric and the Quartet were invited to perform at the White House in December 1998. The quartet recently performed and sold their CD's on the QVC television network and recently performed for the JVC Jazz Festival in Philadelphia where they were also featured in a full page ad for the festival in the June issue of Jazz Times Magazine. Eric was a featured guest last year on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on NPR. Eric has also been interviewed by Down Beat Magazine and was recently given a stellar review of his CD Live @ XM by jazz writer Scott Yanow. The Eric Mintel Quartet are currently celebrating the release of their latest CD Times Change which features mostly originals written by Eric, songs by Dave Brubeck and a tune by Marian McPartland that Marian herself asked Eric to record. Liner notes were also written by Dave Brubeck. Not only are the Eric Mintel Quartet connecting with the listening audience but they are heavily involved in jazz education and frequently conduct work shops and residencies on jazz and the business of jazz. “Jazz is a way of life for me. I love the piano and I love to play jazz and sharing it with our audience is the greatest feeling in the world. Hopefully in some small way we're bringing jazz back to the public conscience where it belongs. I just celebrated my 40th birthday and I'm energized more than ever for jazz", said Mintel.
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