If you need to sit back, kick off the shoes and enjoy a deep red with some good friend(s), this is the music to do it by.  I mean, think perfect meal, cozy fire, rich wine and chocolate, and beautiful people to hold an actual conversation with.  This music is what you will all be drawing back on as you enjoy the evening.  For the flirtatious to the coinsure, the performance is stellar and the mood is just blue enough to get your groove on.  Cheers.
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I agree totally with review submitted by Bob Reilly, can only add,get yourself a copy and one for your friend asap.
It's pure delight.
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Pianist Leslie Pintchik and bassist Scott Hardy, both of whom regularly performed together with the legendary Red Mitchell several years ago at Bradley's in New York, collaborate with percussionist Satoshi Takeishi to form an amazing integrated trio on eight originals, two timeless standards and one Thelonious Monk rarity. As composers, Leslie and Scott offer a rich cornucopia of probing, stimulating jazz filled with a wonderful blend of delicacies which yield new subtleties with each repeated listening. While the entire disc flows with emotion and cascades through the senses, highlights include Scott's airy, deft Latin flavored "Scamba", Leslie's "Hopperesque", a poignant moving tribute to the twentieth century American artist Edward Hopper, "Terse Tune", a riveting number full of finesse and "Mortal", a neatly crafted and arranged palate of sound and space. Equally worthy of attention are: "Let's Get Lucky", a driving, rollicking opus, "Happy Dog", a buoyant bebop tinged tune, "Luscious", a truly tasteful treat and "Something Lost", an exquisite elegy. As for Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's "All the Things You Are", Irving Berlin's "You Keep Coming Back Like A Song" and Thelonious Monk's seldom heard "We See", Leslie and Scott bring unparalleled depth and insight to works that have not been overly performed and beaten to death by every jazz musician on the scene. Satoshi Takeishi's percussion adds a remarkable texture and dimension to the music without abandoning the will to swing.

Together Leslie, Scott and Satoshi caress the ear, warm the heart, soothe the soul and enrich the intellect in a most accessible manner creating a beautiful, sensuous mosaic of integrated jazz that expands upon the inner strength of the fabled Bill Evans trio with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian. What an extraordinary, wonderfully recorded first-rate collection which belongs on the same shelf as the recordings of the aforementioned Evans' trio.
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