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Roberta Piket: Sides, Colors
by Victor L. Schermer
Roberta Piket Sides, ColorsThirteenth Note Records2011 Roberta Piket is a pianist with rich musical abilities who is making a name for herself as one of the best of her generation of keyboard players. Her 2011 release, Sides, Colors is a well-conceived recording, using her trio supplemented by strings and horns in a potpourri of originals and standards. It was realized in a creative manner, embodying several interesting ideas. First, it was recorded in ...
Continue ReadingRoberta Piket: Making a Difference
by Victor L. Schermer
Roberta Piket is a jazz pianist, composer, and arranger with an exceptional range of expression. In the same tune or performance, she moves fluidly between bebop, hard bop, blues, soft and mellow, up-tempo, contrapuntal, and advanced harmonic motifs, making it all come together in meaningful, coherent statements of ideas and emotions. She thinks hard when she plays, “with big ears," as Dave Liebman once said, and a sense of story. She is a truly contemporary player, pushing the envelope. Among ...
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by Wilbert Sostre
Some people describe music in terms of colors. Composers like Duke Ellington used them in song titles like “Black, Brown And Beige," “Black And Tan Fantasy" and “Mood Indigo," to describe the mood and feeling of his music, Sides, Colors is a perfect title for this release by pianist Roberta Piket, as she demonstrates her different musical sides and colors. Piket shows her classical, lyrical side on “Billy's Ballad" and Bill Evans “Laurie," while the classical feel ...
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by Dan McClenaghan
Back in earlier days, when the vinyl, 33 RPM long playing record was the way to listen to music, Roberta Piket's Sides, Colors would have been released as a double disc, with its generous seventy-six minutes of music and two distinctly different moods. After her beautiful piano trio outing, Love and Beauty (Thirteenth Note Records, 2007), Piket now spreads her wings with the subtle addition of strings and horns to her trio 's sound.The first half of the ...
Continue ReadingRoberta Piket Trio: Love and Beauty
by Marcia Hillman
Pianist Roberta Piket likes to push the envelope a little, which makes Love and Beauty an interesting adventure. Piket is joined by her usual cohorts--bassist Ratzo Harris and drummer Billy Mintz--in this offering of original material and two standards. Things begin with Piket's “I'm My Everything (loosely based on Harry Warren's “You're My Everything ), a piece that shows off her skill with a contrapuntal element as well as Mintz's right-on drum work. Another original, “For Uncle ...
Continue ReadingRoberta Piket Trio: Love and Beauty
by Dan McClenaghan
Sitting in the middle of an interactive trio, pianist/composer Roberta Piket unplugs herself from her Alternating Current and delves deep into acoustic piano trio mode on Love and Beauty. Joined by bassist Billy Mintz and drummer Ratzo Harris, the set explores, by turns, lyrical loveliness, gentle loving affection, and sharp-edged abstraction with an old fashioned straight-at-you intensity underlain by a good deal of implacable momentum.The disc opens with the Piket-penned “I'm My Everything," a tune that sounds as ...
Continue ReadingRoberta Piket & Alternating Current: I'm Back in Therapy and It's All Your Fault
by Dan McClenaghan
Piano Lady Roberta Piket is looking quite cool, a little bit saucy, on the cover of her new CD... sunglasses and a hot pink sleeveless blouse, hips cocked, hands planted thereon, head tilted at a “you got a problem" angle. And then there's the title: I'm Back in Therapy and It's All Your Fault. That leads one to believe she's working a bit tongue in cheek, that the music here may play around with the whimsical side of song. But ...
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