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One for Marian: Celebrating Marian McPartland

Featuring the music of Roberta Piket
Duration: 4:15

Piano legend Marian McPartland was eulogized in 2013 as a supremely elegant and accomplished jazz stylist who gracefully conversed and collaborated with a vast array of fellow improvisers from her perch as a beloved public radio host. But her creative output as a composer tends to be overlooked, a situation that should be rectified by Roberta Piket’s brilliantly realized One for Marian: Celebrating Marian McPartland.
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Article: Album Review

Roberta Piket: One for Marian

Read "One for Marian" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer


In 1945, as World War II came to an end, Marian McPartland (1918-2013) moved from England to the United Sates with her then husband, trumpeter Jimmy McPartland. She had already achieved some notoriety as a pianist on radio shows and with the USO, and in the U.S., with her husband's encouragement, she found a secure niche ...

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Article: Album Review

Roberta Piket: One For Marian: Celebrating Marian McPartland

Read "One For Marian: Celebrating Marian McPartland" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


A young, unrecorded artist is asked to share her talents, sitting in a chair that had been warmed by Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Brad Mehldau, Mary Lou Williams, Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea and Dizzy Gillespie to name just a few of the legends who graced Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz series. It says a great deal about ...

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CDs of Note – Short Takes

CDs of Note – Short Takes

Tis the season for jazz tribute recordings. Taking a look at CD projects honoring the musical legacies of Jackie McLean, Marian McPartland, Oscar Peterson, Dinah Washington, Grover Washington Jr. and Attila Zoller... Various Artists Message to Attila: The Music of Attila Zoller (Enja) The late Attila Zoller was an important but somewhat ...

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Pianist Roberta Piket's "One For Marian: Celebrating Marian McPartland" To Be Released June 10

Pianist Roberta Piket's "One For Marian: Celebrating Marian McPartland" To Be Released June 10

Marian McPartland’s creative output as a composer has been quite overshadowed by the late piano legend’s decades-long role as a beloved public radio host. Pianist Roberta Piket aims to help put that right with her new album One for Marian: Celebrating Marian McPartland, to be released by Thirteenth Note Records on June 10. “Roberta Piket is ...

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Emanation

Label: Thirteenth Note Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise; Haunted Heart; Con Alma; Saying Goodbye; Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are; Emanation; All The Things You Are; Ambiance; Actual Proof; Fantasy On A Theme By Chopin.

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Emanation (Solo: Volume 2)

Label: Thirteenth Note Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise; Haunted Heart; Con Alma; Saying Goodbye; Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are; Emanation; All The Things You Are; Ambiance; Actual Proof; Fantasy On A Theme By Chopin.

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All The Things You Are

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Label: Thirteenth Note Records
Released: 2015
Duration: 04:40

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Article: Album Review

Roberta Piket: Emanation (Solo: Volume 2)

Read "Emanation (Solo: Volume 2)" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


The daughter of noted Austrian composer/conductor Fredrick Piket, New York native Roberta Piket took to the piano at an early age, later receiving a degree in jazz piano from New England Conservatory. Piket studied with pianist Richie Beirach, upon returning to New York and receiving an NEA grant. Years later, Beirach has demonstrated his sureness of ...

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Roberta Piket: Emanation

Read "Emanation" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Pianist Roberta Piket sat down at her instrument alone on Solo (Thirteenth Note Records, 2012). It was her first recording in the format, after and marvelous series of trio and quartet sets. An artist known for her “inside/outside" abilities and a cerebral yet emotive approach to piano, her recording debut as a solo artist was unabashedly ...


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