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In Connecticut, Baltimore, NYC, France, Luxembourg, Germany. I'm looking forward to playing with many of my favorite musicians over the next couple of months including Mike Formanek, Roby Glod, Billy Hart, Klaus Kugel, Billy Mintz, Mark Tokar and Yoshi Waki. Also will be playing with some more of New York's best in two concerts celebrating women in jazz with Jan Leder, Jennfier Leitham, Sasha Mogilevich, Janelle Reichman, and Miriam Suillivan. Visit the itinerary for details.

"Love and Beauty is a work of such sustained unity and clarity that you can enter it anywhere" -JazzTimes, May 2007

"[A] mesmerizing session...Highly recommended!"-allmusic.com

"A winning date with a fresh feel."
-downbeat,

"[T]heir ease and fluency with each other is a pleasure to behold. -Cadence, June 2007
You can sample or buy Love and Beauty now at CDBaby.com You can also purchase the CD as a download from us.

Or sample and download tracks from itunes!
The West Coast was great and my Europe trip was amazing. Check out the blog entries and pictures. Join our mailing list to find out when we're in your area!

Listen to tracks by clicking on them:

1. Claude's Clawed (Piket)

2. So In Love (Cole Porter)

3. I'm My Everything (Piket)


"A modern romantic with a contemporary harmonic sense and a timeless genius for inventing fresh, crisp ideas." - Owen McNally, Hartford Courant
Video. Live concert footage of the trio is now on the blog.

Radio Radio. Eric Jackson of WGBH's venerable "Eric in the Evening" program in Boston has been playing several tracks from Love and beauty recently. Jim Wilke has been airing "Alone Alone" on his nationally syndicated NPR show. Love and Beauty also is getting generous airplay worldwide. Gilles Boudry at RCV 99 FM in France is playing us as is Joost van Steen in the Netherlands. In Seattle, KBCS' David Utevsky is spinning "Flight" as is Melodious Mel Lipton at Miami's . Doug Moody is playing us at KMFB-FM in Fort Bragg, CA and the CD was recently "Disc of the Day" on San Diego's KSDS. Roberta was interviewed on New York's WKCR, and cohosted Just Jazz on NJ's WNTI with Bob Bernotas. Dean Hildebrandt of WWUH, West Hartford, has also been spinning several tracks as has Ron Sweetman at CKCU-FM, Ottawa.
Hablas Espanol? Sergio Piccirilli conducts an in-depth interview with Roberta, translated into Spanish, at El Intruso.

Or Greek? Another review in a language I don't speak. I'll have to get one of my Greek-speaking friends to translate for me. www.radiophone.gr.

Piano Jazz. Listen to an excerpt from Roberta's 2001 appearance (her second) on NPR's Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz.

Roberta and Marian discuss the art of solo piano playing followed by a free duo improvisation.

Books. Jazz Piano Vocabulary is on Google book search! View a sample from Volume 5: The Mixolydian Mode or just google "jazz piano books".

More Clips. Andrew Gilbert recently called the trio "stellar" in an article for the Contra Costa Times and the trio received a Critic's Pick by Don Heckman in the Sunday LA Times of 10/8/2006.
"No I do not own a plethora of leather jackets."
Here's a recent picture taken at the San Diego Museum. I'm accompanying the wonderful singer Coral MacFarland Thuet, who blew away both the audience and the band that evening. :

Photo by Mark Keller