Please Save the Date… RP Trio Saturday August 28th

 

Saturday Aug. 28th, 2010    

9:30pm—midnight

 

Roberta Piket Trio at Miles’ Café— Saturday August 28th

 

Roberta Piket Trio

Roberta Piket piano

Daryl Johns bass

Billy Mintz drums

Join us at this brand new midtown venue for a rare opportunity to hear Roberta in New York on a Steinway baby grand.

 

Roberta Piket‘s trio has toured Japan and Spain as well as the U.S. She has performed her music at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., at the Earshot Festival in Seattle, at the Rochester (NY) Jazz Festival, and in New York at Small’s, the Blue Note Club, Birdland, the Knitting Factory and Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

 

Roberta’s CDs frequently make the “best of” lists of the major jazz magazines. Whether performing her original compositions or highly personalized reworkings of standards, Roberta’s daring rhythmic modulations and vast harmonic expansiveness set a new standard for the piano trio.

 

Daryl Johns is a 13-year-old jazz bassist who was a semi-finalist in the 2009 Thelonious Monk International Bass Competition and came in honorable mention. Daryl was awarded “Best Soloist” and “Best Original Song” in Downbeat Magazine’s 2010 33rd Annual Student Music Awards. He has performed with jazz greats Randy Brecker, Jimmy Owens, Dave Liebman, Geoff Keezer, Carl Allen, Jay Leonhart, Warren Vache, Les Paul, Bucky Pizzarelli, Valery Ponomorev, Don Sickler and his father Steve Johns. He has recorded his first CD with his own piano trio at the Bennett Studio in his home town of Englewood, NJ and is currently doing recording projects at Rudy Van Gelder’s Studio produced by Don Sickler.

 

In an extraordinary career spanning nearly 40 years, Billy Mintz has played with some of the biggest names in the jazz world including Lee Konitz, Eddie Daniels, Harold Danko, Mose Allison, Mark Murphy, Bobby Shew, Charles Lloyd, Vinny Golia, and the Alan Broadbent Trio. Mr. Mintz has written two books: Different Drummers, originally published by Aamsco Music Publishing and Advanced Sticking and Sight-Reading (BM Publications). In recent years, Mr. Mintz has taken on new roles as a bandleader and a composer, performing his own compositions with various ensembles. He also performs solo drum set concerts with increasing frequency.