{"id":9635,"date":"2018-06-04T13:06:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T20:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=9635"},"modified":"2018-06-25T19:57:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T02:57:26","slug":"monday-recommendation-roberta-piket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/06\/monday-recommendation-roberta-piket\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Roberta Piket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Roberta Piket<\/strong>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2JeDU8o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Coast Trio<\/a><\/em>, 13th Note Records<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9636\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/61jT9GwRHzL-e1528141775589.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/>The seasoned New York pianist traveled west to record with a sterling rhythm section of veteran Los Angeles players. The bicoastal combination clicked. Drummer Joe La Barbera, bassist Darek Oleszkiewicz, and\u00e2\u20ac\u201don two pieces\u00e2\u20ac\u201dguitarist Larry Koonse meld with Piket in a collection of standards and originals by her and others. After Piket wrote \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mentor,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she discovered that it reminded her of her former teacher Richie Beirach and dedicated it to him. &#8221;\u00a0Her eight-bar exchanges with LaBarbera highlight the track. Zippy versions of Chick Corea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Humpty Dumpty,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Richard Rodgers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Falling In Love With Love\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and George Shearing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Conception\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are up-tempo successes balanced by the trio\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ballad artistry in Piket\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A Bridge To Nowhere.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In Walter Donaldson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1920s ballad \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My Buddy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she lingers over the melody and Oleszkiewicz caresses the verse mid-chorus. They revive the song so touchingly that one wonders why it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t performed more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberta Piket, West Coast Trio, 13th Note Records The seasoned New York pianist traveled west to record with a sterling rhythm section of veteran Los Angeles players. The bicoastal combination clicked. Drummer Joe La Barbera, bassist Darek Oleszkiewicz, and\u00e2\u20ac\u201don two pieces\u00e2\u20ac\u201dguitarist Larry Koonse meld with Piket in a collection of standards and originals by her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}