The daughter of a European composer and a Great American Songbook singer, native New Yorker Roberta Piket is a pianist who loves to swing while exploring the more adventurous harmonic possibilities of ...

Marian McPartland’s creative output as a composer has been quite overshadowed by the late piano legend’s decades-long role as a beloved public radio host. Pianist Roberta Piket aims to help put that ...

Pianist and composer Roberta Piket was born in Queens, N.Y. She began studying piano with her father, composer Frederick Piket, at age 7 and began playing jazz in her early teens. After high school, ...

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Jazz couples have been a part of the genre almost since the beginning. In the ’20s, Louis Armstrong’s wife, Lil Hardin Armstrong, was the pianist in the first edition of his landmark small group, the ...