Los Angeles Times
April 18 2002
10/8/2006
Cryptonight: Roberta Piket Trio
Critics Choice
How can you not be curious about a pianist who writes tunes with titles such as "I'm Back in Therapy and It's All Your Fault" and "I'm My Everything?" But Piket has a lot more to offer than whimsical song titles. Constantly curious, she has released a series of recordings probing across the landscape from retro-mainstream to free jazz. For this gig, her adventurous trio, which includes bassist Ratzo Harris and drummer Billy Mintz, reportedly will play "several esoteric chestnuts from the American songbook and a polymetric arrangement of the Fifth Dimension's 'Up, Up and Away'." (Don Heckman)