Roberta Piket Quartet & JAZZ GIANTS: Harvie S, Scott Robinson, Billy Mintz

8 P T Barnum Square,Bethel CT 06801

14 September, 2022

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Seating Chart Seating is limited. Tables seating 2 - 4 guests, with tables for 6 -8 available upon request. There are also single tickets available. See The Attached Seating Chart. Admission Is Still Only $17.50 Per Person. Tables Of Two = $35., Four = $70., Six = $105., and Eight = $140 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. Scott Robinson Sax and Multi-Instrumentalist. One of today's most wide-ranging instrumentalists, Scott Robinson has been heard on tenor sax with Buck Clayton's band, on trumpet with Lionel Hampton's quintet, on alto clarinet with Paquito D'Rivera's clarinet quartet, and on bass sax with the New York City Opera. On these and other instruments including theremin and ophicleide, he has been heard with a cross-section of jazz's greats representing nearly every imaginable style of the music, from Braff to Braxton. Scott has been heard numerous times on film, radio, and television, and his discography now includes over 165 recordings. His four releases as a leader have garnered five-star reviews from Leonard Feather, DownBeat Magazine, and other sources worldwide. The newest, Melody From the Sky (featuring the seldom-heard C-Melody saxophone), was recently the subject of a Wall Street Journal article by Nat Hentoff. A busy traveler, Scott has performed in some thirty nations, recently completing tours on five continents in a three-month period. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, at the Village Vanguard, at the Smithsonian Institution, and for the President of the United States. Scott's group was selected to be the closing act at the Knitting Factory's Sun Ra Festival in New York City. Scott has also written magazine articles and liner notes and was an invited speaker at the Congressional Black Caucus Jazz Forum in Washington, D.C. Scott was selected by the US State Department to be a Jazz Ambassador for 2001, completing an eight-week, eleven-country tour of West Africa performing his arrangements of the compositions of Louis Armstrong (later featured on his CD Jazz Ambassador). The son of a piano teacher and a National Geographic writer/editor, Scott Robinson was born on April 27, 1959, in New Jersey, and grew up in an eighteenth-century Virginia farmhouse. While in high school, he received the "Louis Armstrong Award", and the "Best Soloist Award" from the National Association of Jazz Educators. In 1981, he graduated from Boston's Berklee College of Music, and a year later became, at 22, Berklee's youngest faculty member. Since moving to New York in 1984, Scott has been awarded four fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts and participated in a number of Grammy-nominated recordings. He has been profiled in upcoming editions of the Encyclopedia of Jazz and Grove's Dictionary of Jazz. A recent 4 minute CNN program featured Scott and the giant contrabass saxophone which he used on his CD, Thinking Big. Scott was also the winner of a recent Downbeat Critics Poll under miscellaneous instruments (talent deserving wider recognition). A respected performer in all areas of jazz, from traditional to avant-garde, Scott Robinson has arrived at his own unique musical voice which, as once described in a Northsea Jazz Festival program, "combines solid foundations with great daring". 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. There are no refunds after tickets have been purchased. In the event of rain or other forms of weather which prohibit a performance, the rain date performance will be held on a future date to be announced. If the weather date becomes postponed because of bad weather or the bands' availability, a future alternate date will be picked. Bethel Jazz reserves the right to substitute a band on the schedule without prior notice to ticket holders. Ticket holders are responsible for responding to rescheduling announcement emails within 24 hours if they are unable to make the rescheduled date.