For those unaware, vocalist Jennifer Roberts and pianist, arranger and musical director Tedd Firth have just released their brand new recording entitled I’ll Be Around this past October 16th, 2026 - a voice-and-piano album centered on the art of interpretation, musical conversation, and beautiful storytelling.

Across fifteen selections, Roberts and Firth move through standards and contemporary classics with an approach that is deliberately sparse: no large ensemble, no musical camouflage, only voice and piano in constant dialogue. The repertoire includes Alfie, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Love Walked In, I’ll Be Around, Waltz for Debby, You’ve Got a Friend, I Remember You, Danny Boy and Save the Best for Last, among others.

The project builds on a long musical partnership. Roberts’ 2018 debut album, An Evening with Jennifer Roberts, also featured Firth as musical director and pianist and received international radio play and critical attention.

Her performance background spans musical theater, New York cabaret, symphony appearances, television and film, influences that inform the dramatic clarity and attention to lyric at the center of I’ll Be Around.

1. Alfie
2. Nice Work If You Can Get It
3. So Many People
4. Love Walked In
5. I’ll Get By/Count Your Blessings (Instead Of Sheep)
6. That’s How Much I Missed You
7. I’ll Be Around
8. A Child Is Born
9. Waltz for Debby
10. I Like You, You’re Nice
11. You’ve Got a Friend
12. I Remember You
13. Danny Boy
14. Some Other Time
15. Save the Best for Last

The world renowned singer along with the much admired pianist open on the dulcet Alfie, the empathically sculpted Nice Work If You Can Get It and the resplendent So Many People, and they are in turn backed by an all-embracing Love Walked In, the decadently engaging I’ll Get By / Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep), an emotive That’s How Much I Missed You and the silky smooth title cut I’ll Be Around.

We are then graced with the impassioned A Child is Born, an alluringly bright Waltz for Debby, and the sonorous I Like You, You’re Nice, and they are in turn followed seamlessly by the deeply resonant You’ve Got a Friend, the affecting beauty of I Remember You and a stirringly affectional Danny Boy, the set rounding out on the gently softly serene Some Other Time, closing out on a delightful jazz-pop balladry take on the Vanessa Williams hit song, the stunning Save the Best for Last.

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