Chez Hanny Presents Roberta Picket - Ratzo Harris - Billy Mintz Trio
Pianist/composer Roberta Piket has played and recorded with Dave Liebman, Rufus Reid, Michael Formanek, Lionel Hampton, Elliot Zigmund, Mickey Roker, Rich Perry, Billy Hart, and Jeff Williams. She has twice been a featured guest on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, on National Public Radio, as well as performing with Ms. McPartland in concert at the Eastman School of Music.
Bassist Ratzo Harris has recorded with Mose Allison, Denny Zeitlin, Kenny Werner, Tom Rainey, Joe Lovano, Mark Feldman, Eric Friedlander, Connie Crothers, Gary Bartz, Randy Brecker, Vincent Herring, David Darling, Paul McCandless, Jane Ira Bloom, John Scofield, and Paul Motian, and performed frequently with Joe Henderson, John Handy, Charles Lloyd, Jon Hendricks, Ted Curson, Tim Berne, Betty Carter, Helen Merrill, Les Paul, Joanne Brackeen, and Jim Pepper.
Billy Mintz was born in Queens, New York in 1947. By the age of 15 he was firmly entrenched in several of the show bands of the Catskill Mountain resorts, and as his musicianship developed he would eventually tour with jazz artists such as Lee Konitz, Eddie Daniels, Harold Danko, Mose Allison, Mark Murphy, Kim Richmond and Bobby Shew. He appears on records by the following artists, among others: Bill Perkins/James Clay Quintet, Vinny Golia, Harold Danko, Eddie Daniels, Bobby Shew, Bob Magnusson and Bruce Fowler.
Cost: $20