Bob Gluck is a highly intuitive pianist & composer, offering a broad sonic palate where lyricism and abstraction find a shared home. He has been described as an inheritor of the traditions of Cecil Taylor, Andrew Hill, Paul Bley, & Don Pullen, sensitive to the pastoral and pensive aspects of impressionism and late romanticism. Cadence Magazine has called him "...a brilliant improviser..." Allan Kozinn (New York Times) observes: "an accomplished jazz pianist... with virtuosic fluidity." Jazz Review observes of "Returning" (2011), "Gluck's compositions are expressed with an intensity and sensitivity that is spellbinding." Jerome Wilson (All About Jazz) writes: "Gluck's playing is radiant" on "Early Morning Star" (2020). Mike Greenblatt (Goldmine) adds that on "Transcendence: Music of Pat Metheny" (2025), “He’s a dynamite keyboardist.”
