Katy Roberts Quintet Comes To Twins Jazz Club 9/2-3

Twins Jazz Club welcomes Katy Roberts Quintet feat. Salim Washington on Fri., Sep. 02 & Sat., Sep. 03 for 9pm & 11pm sets

Katy Roberts-piano, arrangements, compositions
Tom Williams - trumpet
Salim Washington - tenor sax, flute, oboe
James King-bass
Joe Link- drums

Katy Roberts, jazz pianist, composer and arranger, decided to study jazz piano after living and studying African music and dance in Accra, Ghana. She was trained musically in Boston (she obtained her Bachelor of Music at Berklee College of Music in 1979 and her Master of Music degree from New England Conservatory in 1985). Katy was already playing solo piano regularly, leading bands, playing as a sideperson and teaching piano and Ensemble at the Berklee College of Music in Boston when she moved to Paris, France in 1990. She continued playing as a sideperson, notably she was the pianist with the Ku-Umba Frank Lacy Quartet from 1992 to 2000 and frequently toured Europe with that group. She also performed regularly with Mra Oma and Brotherhood, and recorded and toured Greece with that band. In 1998 she released her first CD as a leader, "Katy Roberts Trios". She also has performed with such greats as Oliver Johnson, George Brown, John Betsch, Salim Washington, Rasul Siddik, Sonny Simmons and Ricky Ford. Recently she has also performed frequently as a duo and in groups with Ernest. K. Dawkins, the great saxophonist from Chicago's AACM. She performs regularly in Europe with the "Spirit of Life Ensemble" from New York. She has also worked frequently with the great trumpeter Ted Curson's group in Paris. Recently she has joined the legendary saxophonist Hal Singer's Quintet. Besides that, she has always continued to compose for and perform with her own quintet.

In 2001, Katy decided to start self- producing her own quintet and septet. She has since independently released three CD's, two quintets and one septet, that have had high critical acclaim. She has taken her band along the east coast of the US, and performed regularly in Paris and other parts of France. Performances include the Maine International Film Festival, the Madagascar Jazz Festival, the Zanzibar International Film Festival (with the group Apex), the XV International Open Air Festival Jazz at the Old Town Square, Poland in 2009. She performs regularly in Europe with the "Spirit of Life Ensemble" from New York. She has also worked frequently with the great trumpeter Ted Curson's group in Paris.

In 2006 Katy released her CD "Live at Twins and More" and performed on the east coast of the US with her Quintet in August and September, 2006, 2007 and 2008. She is now performing regularly in Paris and other parts of France with her group , and has recorded a new CD of all new original material which hasn't been released yet, although several of her songs have been chosen by licensing companies across the states for placement in film and TV. Katy also plays balafon on that latest recording, an instrument she learned to play while living in Ghana. Katy also co-produced Rasul Siddik's CD, his first as a leader, (the "Rasul Siddik Now! Artet") in 2008 and 2009. It has been released on Philology Records, Italy.

Katy is also a professor at the Conservatory of Val d'Yerres, (France) where she teaches jazz piano, arranging and conducts and arranges for jazz ensembles.

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