Tom Roberts – Piano
Tom Elrick – Drums

Performing a history of jazz piano from the late 1800’s to the 1940’s.
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Pianist, composer, and arranger Tom Roberts is one of the leading exponents of early jazz piano in the world today (as stated by Ricardo Sciavales in The Heart and Soul of Stride, Blues, and Swing Piano).

He has performed on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Kiellor. He was the featured pianist at the International Stride Piano Summit in Zurich, Switzerland 2001 and 2009. Tom was pianist for Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks in New York City (recent Grammy winners for the soundtrack to Boardwalk Empire)  and pianist and musical director for Leon Redbone for six years. Tom has performed twice at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2003, once with Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops. He was featured in 2003 in solo with Dick Hyman at the prestigious Jazz In July series at New York’s 92nd St. Y.  Tom has performed multiple times at The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage festival including a solo performance at The Professor Longhair Society’s Piano Night At Tipitina’s. He was featured at The Smithsoinian Institution „Festival of American Folklife“ and has performed throughout Europe as a member of multiple ensembles from New Orleans.

Tom has composed new musical scores for The Charlie Chaplin films One A.M. and The Rink through a commision from The Pittsburgh Symphony. The scores were premiered at The Leopold Mozart Conservatory in Augsburg Germany and then performed in Pittsburgh at Heinz Hall in May 2012 as part of the Pittsburgh Symphony Paris Festival The City of Light.  He has completed a score for a newly restored version of The Pawnshop which was premiered at The Hollywood Theater as part of the centennial  celebrations for the 100th anniversary of Chaplin’s first films. At the same event he premiered another new score for Chaplin’s first appearance as the iconic Little Tramp in „Kid Auto Races at Venice CA“   He orchestrated this same work which was performed in 2014 by The Washington Symphony Orchestra

In 2012 he composed a new score for the Gloria Swanson film Stage Struck, performed at The Andy Warhol Museum as part of the „Unseen Treasures from The George Eastman House“ series and  November of 2013   saw the premiere of his new score for the Roscoe „Fatty“ Arbuckle film „Special Delivery“ also for The Eastman Hoise series at The Warhol in 2013. He has recently completed and performed  a new score for the Harry Langdon 1926 film „Tramp, Tramp, Tramp“ which was premiered at The Andy Warhol museum in September 2014.