Roberta Piket Quartet 7:00pm Wed June 9 @La Zingara Safe Seating $15 PP

8 P T Barnum Square,Bethel CT 06801

09 June, 2021

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The Roberta Piket Quartet (Downbeat Winner) Featuring JAZZ GIANTS Bassist: Harvie S, Saxophonist: Virginia Mayhew, And Dummer: Billy Mintz Seating Chart Safe Social Distancing Seating With Very Limited Ticket Availability. Tickets Are Sold By The Table ONLY. Tables seating 2 - 4 guests, with tables for 6 -8 available upon request. See The Attached Seating Chart. Five Indoor Tables With Open French Doors Facing The Performance And Eight Outdoor Tables Are Available. Rain date will be announced for a Sunday in October. Admission Is Still Only $15.00 Per Person But Must Be Purchased As A Table For Safety Table Of Two = $30., Four = $60., Six = $90., and Eight = $120 Roberta Piket Pianist & Organist: Roberta Piket 2018 Downbeat Critics' Poll Winner (Rising Star, Organ) and 16th in the Rising Star category for Piano. In the 2018 Downbeat Readers' Poll, Roberta was voted 8th in the Jazz Artist category, 7th in the Piano category and 5th in the Organ category. Roberta has performed with David Liebman, Rufus Reid, Lionel Hampton, Juini Booth, Victor Jones, Ted Curson, Mickey Roker, Harvey Wainapel, Eliot Zigmund, Virginia Mayhew, Billy Mintz, and the BMI/NY Jazz Orchestra, and was thrice a featured guest on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, on National Public Radio. Roberta hails from Queens, NY. where her father and composer Frederick Piket, started Roberta at the age of 7 navigating the 88s. She began playing jazz in her early teens, studying jazz piano with Walter Bishop, Jr and classical piano with Vera Wels before going on to earn a Bachelor's Degree in Jazz Piano from the New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied privately with Fred Hersch, Stanley Cowell, and Bob Moses. After graduation, Roberta returned to New York City where she studied for six years with Richie Beirach and also studied briefly with Sofia Rosoff. Roberta is highly regarded as a teacher and has held master classes at numerous prestigious institutions including the Eastman School of Music, Rutgers University and Duke University as well as in Europe and Japan. Billy Mintz Percussionist Percussionist: Billy Mintz began his professional career at 15 he was playing in the showbands of the Catskill Mountain resorts. By his twenties, in New York City, he was recording with the Lee Konitz Nonet (1978), Kundalini with Perry Robinson, and Badal Roy, the Eddie Daniels Quartet, Gloria Gaynor, and the Harold Danko Quartet. In 1981 Mr. Mintz relocated to Los Angeles where he was a member of the Mike Garson Trio with Stanley Clarke; the Kim Richmond Sextet; the Bobby Shew Quintet, the Joey Sellers Jazz Aggregation, the Vinny Golia Quartet, the Mose Allison Trio and with Mark Murphy In LA, Mintz performed with the Bill Mays Quartet, as well as with Road Work Ahead, with Mr. Mays, Bob Magnusson, and Peter Sprague. In 1988 he toured Europe with saxophonist Charles Lloyd's band. Mr. Mintz has authored two books: "Different Drummers" (AMSCO Publishing) and "Advanced Sticking and Sight-Reading" (BM Publications). His articles have been published in Not Just Jazz and Modern Drummer magazines. Mintz currently lives in New York, where he performs with the Alan Broadbent Trio, Roberta Piket Trio, and Tony Malaby, among others. He leads the Billy Mintz Band and the Two Bass Band, a ten-piece ensemble. Bassist: Harvie S. Harvie S, is an award-winning bassist, educator, composer, arranger, and producer, is continually challenging himself and his peers, expanding the borders of musical direction. His last Recording with Alan Broadbent Trio "New York Notes" on High Note Savant Records was on the Jazz Week Charts for 4 months and garnered rave reviews. In Sept 2020 the follow-up "Trio in Motion" will be released on High Note Savant. Both CDs were produced by Harvie and he was also recording engineer and co-mixed it with Dave Kowalski. A legendary bassist, he has performed and recorded with Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon, Tony Bennett, Ray Baretto, Michael Brecker, Jean Pierre Rampal, Paquito D'Rivera, Gil Evans, Art Farmer, Mark Turner, Jim Hall, Stefon Harris, Billy Hart, Lee Konitz, Yusef Lateef, Dave Leibman, Joe Lovano, Pat Metheny, Paul Motion, Chico O'Farrill, Danilo Perez, Maria Schneider, Zoot Sims, Toots Thielemans, Ray Vega, James Williams, Phil Woods, Louie Bellson and countless others. He can be heard on twenty albums as a leader, fifteen as a co-leader, and over four hundred albums as a sideman. These recordings include his work with James Brown, Kenny Barron, Chick Corea, Tom Harrell, Sheila Jordan, Steve Kuhn, Pat Martino, Alan Broadbent, Wycliff Gordon, David Mathews, Virginia Mayhew, James Weidman, Lee Konitz, Eddie Henderson, James Moody, Danilo Perez, Anat Cohen, James Weidman, Jack Wilkins Mike Stern, Dave Leibman, John Scofield, Dr. Billy Taylor, Dave Liebman, Yusef Lateef, and Grover Washington Jr. Harvie's album with the legendary Sheila Jordan Harvie S duo is a magical live performance released on High Note Records in 2012 called "Yesterdays". Jazz times included it in the best 100 recordings of 2012. In January 2013, Witchcraft was released on High Note Savant with Jazz master Kenny Barron. It was #1 on Jazz Week national radio charts. This is a follow up to the previous 2009 duo recording with Kenny Barron, Now Was the Time, also on High Note/Savant Records. Harvie S was selected a Jazz Ambassador for the United States and toured throughout Europe and Southeast Asia in this honored capacity. He has been a guest on NPR's All Things Considered and Fresh Air. His career is documented in Leonard Feather's Encyclopedia of Jazz, the Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and the All Music Guide. Mr. S composed the musical themes for the documentaries The Trumpet Kings, The Piano Legends, and John Coltrane. Harvie S has been featured in print and internet articles in The New York Times, The New York Post, The Daily News, Japan Times, USA Today, Downbeat, All About Jazz, Jazziz, Cadence, Jazz Improv, Coda(Canada), Jazztimes, Swing Journal(Japan), Jazz Life(Japan), Jazz Forum(Poland), Jazz Hot (France), Hot House, Jazz Improv, The Los Angeles Times, Jazz Podium and Jazz-it (Italy). Harvie S has performed at The Blue Note, The Iridium, The Kennedy Center, Montreal Jazz Festival, JVC Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Detroit Jazz Festival, Berlin Jazz Festival, Molde Jazz Festival, Moscow Jazz Festival, and countless other venues worldwide. In addition to his performance career, Harvie S is an active educator. He is a Professor of Jazz Bass and Jazz Ensemble at Manhattan School of Music, in both Undergraduate and Graduate divisions. Currently developing new music for a variety of musical ensembles and recordings, Harvie S is integrating his lifetime of musical experience and research into opening doors to new and exciting pathways of creative expression. He has also written a series of bass duets that are revolutionary in their concept for teaching and performing. Virgina Mayhew - Saxaphonist: composer/arranger/bandleader, Virginia Mayhew has been an active participant in the New York jazz scene since 1987, and has led her own groups for over 25 years. She currently leads several quartets, a quintet, and a septet. In the course of her career, Virginia has worked with renowned artists from Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines, Cab Calloway, Frank Zappa, James Brown, Norman Simmons, Al Grey, Junior Mance, Joe Williams, Chico O'Farrill, Marlena Shaw, to Toshiko Akiyoshi, Kenny Barron, Leon Parker, Ingrid Jensen, Claudio Roditi, Nnenna Freelon, and many others. Virginia has been a guest on Marian McPartland’s ‘Piano Jazzʼ, a featured artist on NPR’s ‘All Things Consideredʼ, and has appeared twice on ‘Jazz Set’ with Dee Dee Bridgewater. She was selected by Downbeat magazine as a 'Rising Star’, and has been the subject of several feature articles in Downbeat, Jazztimes and Jazziz magazines. Virginia has appeared in most of New York City's major jazz venues (including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Town Hall, Jazz Standard, Blue Note, Sweet Basil, Smalls), and has performed throughout the world. Virginia has also been featured as a leader at many jazz festivals, both within the United States and abroad, and has traveled twice as a representative of the United States as a Jazz Ambassador, once to the Newly Independent States and a second time to Southeast Asia. Early in her career, Virginia worked with veteran trombonist Al Grey for several years. She is featured on his 1992 release, FAB (Capri), and contributed several arrangements to his 1995 CD, Centerpiece (Telarc). She also worked for several years with Brazilian trumpeter Claudio Roditi, and was part of ‘Dreamin’ the Duke', featuring Nnenna Freelon, Harolyn Blackwell, Mike Garson, and Terell Stafford. In addition, Virginia freelances in the NYC area. We're sorry, there are no refunds after tickets have been purchased. In the event of rain or other forms of weather which prohibits an outdoor performance, the rain date performance will be held on the Sunday of that week. If the rain date becomes postponed because of weather, a future alternate weather date will be picked.