Tom Roberts is a leading exponent of early jazz piano. He's played everywhere from New York’s Carnegie Hall and the Tonight Show to the major jazz clubs in the French Quarter.
Grab your ticket to the 2023 Holiday Spectacular with the Red Beans & Rice Combo and special guest Rick Sebak.
Make it a spooky, musical Halloween to remember as Pittsburgh composer and acclaimed stride pianist Tom Roberts performs his original score for the first horror film: Nosferatu.
We are so excited to welcome back stride piano player, Tom Roberts, to The Maple Leaf for another silent movie event—just in time for Halloween season!
Featuring live musical score by Tom Roberts!
An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, NOSFERATU (1922) is the quintessential silent vampire film, crafted by legendary German director F. W. Murnau. Rather than depicting Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau’s Graf Orlok (as portrayed by Max Schreck) is a nightmarish, spidery creature of bulbous head and taloned claws — perhaps the most genuinely disturbing incarnation of vampirism yet envisioned.
Get your tickets via eventbrite using the link.
The Red Beans & Rice Combo are serious musicians who don’t take themselves too seriously. The fun-loving trio is known for their danceable mix of New Orleans R&B, early rock & roll nuggets, and barroom ballads, with a jazzy dash of Tin Pan Alley, and a side of wit and humor. Don’t forget your dancing shoes!
The Combo features the world-celebrated early jazz stride pianist Tom Roberts (who also sings and whistles), along with Dave Klug on drums and his custom-built “Kluger Soundboard,” and Wayno on vocals, harmonica, & ukulele.
Join us in our newly improved Studio at the Carnegie Carnegie, an intimate space with a club-vibe! Complimentary snacks. Beer and wine by donations.
Courtesy of the Almanac - the South Hills Community News
Tickets $20 in advance-$25 at the door. Go to https://carnegiecarnegie.org/event/listen-locally-downstairs-with-the-red-beans-rice-combo/ for more information.
Tom will be returning online with more records from his rare, pristine, shellac-based 78 rpm records. This time we’ll be focusing on Klezmer Clarinetists, Greek Blues, and New Orleans jazz. Highlights include Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone, Sidney Bechet, and Edmond Hall. If you enjoy jazz, rebetiko, or classic sounds, we hope you’ll join us!
This is a zoom event. You can click this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85940966845?fbclid=IwAR1hHbBA071XptJ6-Vlw7cHmdgaIBl2ap69shh6yvd28297mbaPYvO_4Mk8#success
to join the zoom call, but if the link doesn’t work, please go to the Monroeville Library facebook page and click on their event link here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1322126411707995
Join the Red Beans and Rice Combo at the Pittsburgh Winery!
After Saint Patrick’s Day is behind us, drop by the fabulous Pittsburgh Winery Tasting Room for an early show on Saturday, March 18th, 2023.
The Winery offers a fine selection of house made wines and craft bears, plus meat & cheese board.
$7.50 cover
Tom Roberts will amaze, entertain, and enlighten you with a tour-de-force of the historical art form of Harlem Stride piano, the virtuosic piano music of the Harlem renaissance. Tom will play music of the great artists of the day: James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Charles “Luckey” Roberts, and Willie “The Lion” Smith. Tom has performed this repertoire at New York City’s prestigious 92nd Street Y and twice at the International Stride Piano Summit in Zurich, Switzerland where he was a featured performer.
Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Click here to purchase yours.
Doors open at 7:00 PM and the concert begins at 7:30 PM.
Tom will perform the original scores he wrote for Charlie Chaplin’s Pawnshop, One A.M., and The Rink. Join him in Millvale at the former Panza Gallery at 115 Sedgwick Street.
We're returning to the fabulous Pittsburgh Winery on Friday, November 18.
We might even preview a number or two from our upcoming Holiday show.
The Pittsburgh Silent Film Society commissioned Tom Roberts to compose a new score for Nosferatu to commemorate the film’s 100-year anniversary of Nosferatu.
This is a not to miss performance on Friday, October 14, 2022, at the 3rd Street Gallery, 220 3rd Street, Carnegie.
Doors open at 7:00.
$20.00 admission
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (German: Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens) is a 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife (Greta Schröder) of his estate agent (Gustav von Wangenheim) and brings the plague to their town.
The silent film will be paired with new music composed and performed live in the Theater by Pittsburgh native, Tom Roberts.
Join The Rangos Giant Cinema and pianist Tom Roberts for a night of live music and silent films via Zoom. In the spirit of Chaplin’s incredible legacy, listen to Roberts’ original scores performed live against two of Chaplin’s films—Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914), the first on-screen appearance of Chaplin’s “Little Tramp” character, and The Pawnshop (1916).
Roberts has played everywhere from New York’s Carnegie Hall and The Tonight Show to the major jazz clubs in the French Quarter. He toured throughout the world as pianist and musical director for Leon Redbone.
In addition to his scores for the Chaplin films One A.M., The Rink, The Pawn Shop and Kid Auto Races, he has composed scores for films by Harry Langdon, Eddie Cantor, and Gloria Swanson for The Andy Warhol Museum.
Roberts also has composed and performed the scores for the Nebby series by beloved Pittsburgh documentarian Rick Sebak.
Free for Carnegie Museums Members / $7 for nonmember
I will be curating and introducing the greatest film EVER!!!
Don't believe me?
Well, come on out and see for yourselves. You will be moved, I promise.
See one of the greatest silent films by one of history’s most iconic comedians on Pittsburgh’s largest screen! Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights is often considered by critics one of the highest accomplishments of his career and one of the greatest movies of all time.
A hapless but resilient tramp (Charlie Chaplin) falls in love with a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill) on the tough city streets. Upon learning that she and her grandmother are to be evicted from their home, the tramp undertakes a series of attempts to provide them with the money they need, all of which end in humiliating failure. But after a drunken millionaire (Harry Myers) lavishly rewards him for saving his life, the tramp can change the flower girl’s life forever.
Tom returns with the greatest music you've never heard to the east end! I go thru that tunnel or cross that bridge so you don't have to! Shellac and steel needles!!
Klezmer, hot jazz, hot tango, hot klezmer, hot greek, hot calypso, hot old time country and who knows what else all direct from the original 78s. The Hot Club of Pittsburgh is an educational/entertainment thingy!
I was chosen by producer, and curator of jazz at Lincoln Center, Phil Schaap to create this group in which people gather in public places to hear hot music played directly from the original 78 rpm recordings on vintage equipment and sometimes on modern turntables.
Come and hear the greatest music you've never heard before! Your life will improve! I promise!
The Hot Clubs of America began in the 1930s, where people gathered to listen to 78 RPM recordings. If you’ve ever heard an original 78 played in-person, you know this is the closest thing to a time machine we can experience.
We will present the greatest music you've never heard direct from the original 78s on vintage wind-up record players, and the sound will amaze you! Plus this space is haunted!!!
Admission $20. Refreshments provided. BYOB .
RSVP Required: 724.452.0539
The Combo returns to the friendly and intimate Orbis Caffe in Mount Lebanon for an evening of music, food, and fun.
Orbis will have a selection of small plate dinners and treats available for sale, along with their usual coffees, tea, and soft drinks. You're welcome to BYOB.
Cover charge is $15 per person.
Reservations are highly recommended. Orbis has seating for 60 people, and we expect a sold-out house. To reserve your table, call Orbis at 412.563.1220, or stop by in person, and while you're there, get a drink. We recommend the espresso!
Want to do something amazing on leap day? Come on up to Spring Hill to House of Pingting, the home and gallery of David Pohl for our first in house experience.
David has a 1914 Victor Victrola and which I will use to play acoustically recorded 78s such as Mamie Smith, and the first blues record, the ODJB first jazz record and we will listen to the incredible recordings of James Reese Europe and the Clef Club orchestra.
The Clef Club was a musician's organization that created opportunities for the black musicians of New York. They performed at Carnegie Hall in 1912 to a standing room only audience. You have probably never heard of them but THIS is why The Hot Club of Pittsburgh exists!
The Red Beans & Rice Combo returns to the Studio with New Orleans and Mardi Gras tunes to celebrate the last weekend of Carnival Season in style.
The Red Beans & Rice Combo are serious musicians who don’t take themselves too seriously. The fun-loving trio is known for their danceable mix of New Orleans R&B, early rock & roll nuggets, and barroom ballads, with a jazzy dash of Tin Pan Alley, and a side of wit and humor.
So dust off your finest purple, green, and gold and bring your krewe Downstairs to the Carnegie Carnegie Carnival! Complimentary snacks, drinks by donation and a prize for the “best dressed!”
Something is in the air that night!
That is a mystical date so bring your mystical date to Bier's Pub for part of the Northside Mardi Gras 2020 festivities.
6:30 p.m. til when ever!
Behave yourselves! It's not really New Orleans, just pretending to be.
Tom will tickle and torture the ivories and make you leave your body in preparation for Mardi Gras.
Dr. John, Professor Longhair, James Booker, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and a host of other New Orleans piano masters will be channeled and come to life before your very ears!!!
We kickoff the Northside Mardi Gras celebration with a fun night of live entertainment from the The Red Beans & Rice Combo!
From Feb. 15–25 local Northside businesses will present food, drink, retail, live entertainment.
Doors open @ 7:30 p.m.
The Hot Club of Pittsburgh Presents the multimedia immersive event "Why Louis Armstrong Matters". There is MUCH more to Louis than you've ever imagined.
Those who experience will hear for themselves how this child who was abandoned to the most dangerous streets in the world by a prostitute mother changed ALL music. If you think that Pops is an Uncle Tom one hit wonder from the sixties, this will open your ears and your heart, (If you actually possess them.)
PLUS!! Fabulous wine from Mendoza Argentina!!
Featuring music from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Peru, and South Korea. Performed by students of the Mary Pappert School of Music and special guests Alejandro Pinzon (bandoneon) & Tom Roberts (piano).
Students from the ISO will also share how music brings people together in their culture. Dr. Joseph Sheehan, artistic director.
It's tango day in Pittsburgh!
Join Flor Derecha and the Refucilo Winery at PYCO.
I'll be spinning hot tango on the victrola for dancing!
I'll playing with my tango gang friends Ada Lis Jimena and Alejandro Pinzon!
Wine!
Songs about killing yourself after love goes wrong!!!!
What more could you ask for????
The Brothers in Beans return to our happy place—The Allegheny Elks for our 3rd annual Holiday Spectacular!
Rick Sebak reads! And does fun games!!!
The Combo plays your soon-to-be favorite unknown Christmas favorites, like Santa Claus wants some Lovin'!! And the Boogie Woogie Santa Claus!
There is a new gang in town and they are very cool!
Who are they???
The Pittsburgh Classic Movie Club! A dedicated group of fine folks who adore the classic films of yesteryear!
They will be hosting my Charlie Chaplin Silent Picture show at the Friendship Perk and Brew.
Come on out and get lost in classic cinema and meet my new friends whilst dining and drinking!!! How can you lose????
