Author: Roberta

Roberta Piket – The Irish Times – Fri, Sep 30, 2011.

I’ve been preparing for my first solo piano recording! Come for the adventure, stay for the scariness as I play music by Monk, Corea, McPartland, Strayhorn, et al., as well as an original or two.

Thursday, Sept. 15th
One Set Only at 7pm
Miles’ Cafe
212 E. 52nd St. 3Fl. (b/2nd & 3rd Ave.) New York, NY 10022
E/V train to 53rd St./ Lexington, 6 train to 51st St.
(212) 371-7657
$10 cover, $10 minimum

Some other local dates this month:
-Ibeam in Brooklyn with two greats – Louie Belogenis and Billy Mintz playing improvised music on the following Thursday – September 22nd.

-Whole Foods in West Orange, NJ in a straight-ahead duo with another great saxophonist, Virginia Mayhew, on Tuesday September 27th. (Yes they have a grand piano there.)

See my web site for details.

Thanks for your support!

Roberta Piket performs a solo concert at Miles’ Café on Sept. 15th to prepare for her first solo piano recording this fall. Other performances this month include free jazz at Ibeam in Brooklyn with Louie Belogenis and Billy Mintz on 9/22, a straight-ahead duo with Virginia Mayhew at Whole Foods West Orange, NJ on 9/27 and the Myrtle Beach Jazz Festival on Sept 23rd with her trio. Meanwhile her latest CD, Sides, Colors, is getting great reviews in downbeat, JazzTimes, the Swiss daily Aargauer Zeitung and the NYC Jazz Record.

We’ve just completed Grammy submissions for Sides, Colors. If you’re a NARAS member (or just want to hear the music), you can listen to my three submitted tracks here:

Submission for best instrumental arrangement accompanying vocals (category 59)

Submission for best instrumental arrangement (category 58)

Submission for best improvised jazz solo (category 30)

I’ve tested these downloads on both Mac and PC. These are big files so give them a few seconds to load.

If you’d like to hear the whole CD, which we’ve also submitted for consideration for best jazz instrumental album (category 32), contact me.

I’m very proud of this recording. It’s my eighth as a leader and the first one I’ve submitted for Grammy consideration.

A drummer friend of mine requested a copy of Degree Absolute, the slightly off-kilter 17/16 funky organ/piano track on Sides, Colors. So I added it to the sheet music page on my web site. You can download it, and other original compositions of mine, for free here:

https://robertajazz.com/sheet-music/

I want to say how much I appreciate your continued support for my newest CD, Sides, Colors, which was released this past March on Thirteenth Note Records.

To say thank you, we’re sponsoring a contest at AllAboutJazz.com. AAJ is giving away five free copies of Sides, Colors. Anyone can become an AAJ member and sign up for the contest for free starting today. FIVE winners will be selected at the conclusion of the contest on June 27th. Sign up here:

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=81953

The CD has being getting great reception in both JazzTimes and Downbeat magazines.

Thematic diversity is the most intriguing aspect of pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger Roberta Piket’s latest release, Sides, Colors… The strings add a pensive, striking quality to Piket’s lines and Mintz’s colorations
-Ron Wynn, JazzTimes (May 2011)

And in the upcoming June Downbeat, Robert Doerschuk wrote a lovely piece in the Players section called “Beyond the Trio”.

We’ve also gotten great feedback on our “jazz video”, so if you haven’t checked it out, you owe it to yourself to watch it: Idy’s Dance

Some travel is in the works for later this year and early 2012. For news on upcoming shows, video clips and more, please “like” my Facebook page or visit www.robertajazz.com

Thanks again for your support, and don’t forget to enter the contest!

Best Regards,

Roberta

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