Album lore

You've Been Warned, issued in August 2022 on Sunnyside, gathers pianist Roberta Piket with bassist Harvie S and drummer Billy Mintz. The trio navigates a terrain bridging Latin jazz pulse and free jazz exploration across ten tracks. Recorded with clarity that captures the interplay’s subtlety, the album’s arrangements often unspool with restless rhythmic shifts and harmonic openness. Piket’s piano work anchors the session, weaving melodic fragments that respond to Harvie S’s resonant bass lines and Mintz’s nuanced percussion. The piece "Flight (Slow)" exemplifies the group’s patient unfolding, where time loosens and the trio’s conversational approach takes form. Though modest in contemporary reach—just over a thousand plays on Last.fm—this release adds a deliberate voice to the lineage of small-group jazz that privileges both groove and abstraction.

Album lore

You've Been Warned, issued in August 2022 on Sunnyside, gathers pianist Roberta Piket with bassist Harvie S and drummer Billy Mintz. The trio navigates a terrain bridging Latin jazz pulse and free jazz exploration across ten tracks. Recorded with clarity that captures the interplay’s subtlety, the album’s arrangements often unspool with restless rhythmic shifts and harmonic openness. Piket’s piano work anchors the session, weaving melodic fragments that respond to Harvie S’s resonant bass lines and Mintz’s nuanced percussion. The piece "Flight (Slow)" exemplifies the group’s patient unfolding, where time loosens and the trio’s conversational approach takes form. Though modest in contemporary reach—just over a thousand plays on Last.fm—this release adds a deliberate voice to the lineage of small-group jazz that privileges both groove and abstraction.