New CDs: Last December I participated in a concert of improvised music in Lviv, Ukraine with four fantastic European Musicians. A recording of the concert will soon be released on Moscow's Solyd label. The quintet, formed for the Bezz festival in Ukraine and Poland, consists of Yury Yaremchuk, Petras Vysniauskas Mark Tokar, and Klaus Kugel.

Saxophonist Glenn White will soon release "Sacred Machines" on the Seattle-based label Origin Arts. I play piano and Rhodes. Check out the samples at Glenn's Myspace site. While you're at it visit my myspace site. (Is that redundant?)
Love and Beauty and Beyond: Meanwhile plans are in the works for a new CD - something a little different this time. I've been writing for piano trio plus horns and strings.
"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, September 2007

"[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. Please check the itinerary frequently. Or join our mailing list to be notified!

Listen to tracks by clicking on them:

1. Claude's Clawed (Piket)

2. So In Love (Cole Porter)

3. I'm My Everything (Piket)

Video. Live concert footage of the trio is now up 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