Marcus Roberts Trio releases new Christmas CD, Celebrating Christmas
Jacksonville, FL – Today, J-Master Records announces the release of its newest Marcus Roberts Trio recording, Celebrating Christmas, featuring bassist Rodney Jordan and drummer, Jason Marsalis,...
View ArticleSavannah Music Festival’s Swing Central Jazz 2012 is coming up!
Each year at the end of March, Marcus Roberts gets ready to head to Savannah for the world-renowned Savannah Music Festival. Certainly, it’s a fantastic place to hear great music every year but for...
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Marcus Roberts Trio in the UK
Saturday March 17, 2012 is not only St. Patrick’s Day, it’s also the day the Marcus Roberts Trio heads off to London again. So for those of you in the UK, they hope to see you at one of the shows....
View Article“Across the Imaginary Divide”
The first tour of Across the Imaginary Divide for Béla Fleck with the Marcus Roberts Trio in May and June of this year has been a huge success. Many fans (and critics) have been surprised by what they...
View ArticleInterview with The Marcus Roberts Trio and Béla Fleck
While the Trio and Béla Fleck were performing in June at the Blue Note Jazz Club in NYC, Béla, Marcus, Rodney, and Jason visited the WBGO studios to talk with Gary Walker about the new CD, Across the...
View ArticleHail to the Queen
I’ve been hearing a lot about Queen Elizabeth II lately (after her gutsy video performance at the Olympics). It inspired me to listen to Ellington’s “The Queen’s Suite” – he wrote it for her majesty...
View ArticleDownbeat Magazine Interview
The September 2012 issue of Downbeat magazine includes an interview with Marcus Roberts and Béla Fleck about their current tour, Across the Imaginary Divide. The interview includes comments on the...
View ArticleMarcus Roberts releases new CD, Deep in the Shed: A Blues Suite
J-Master Music is pleased to announce the release of Marcus Roberts’ new recording, Deep in the Shed: A Blues Suite, featuring a nonet of Roberts’ close musician friends, including regular trio members...
View ArticleMarcus Roberts’ Jazz At Lincoln Center Performance Exploded with Innovated...
By Danny R. Johnson San Diego County News, September 2013 The late Shirley Valerie Horn, an American jazz singer and pianist, shared with me in a conversation at a Washington, DC jazz event back in...
View Article‘Together Again’ With Wynton Marsalis, 20 Years Later
by NPR Staff December 28, 2013 2:00 PM Click here to listen to NPR podcast with Marcus Roberts Marcus Roberts was a very young, very gifted pianist back in 1985, when Wynton Marsalis tapped him to...
View ArticleMarcus Roberts Elevates, Expands the Canon
by Joe Tangari DownBeat, February 2014 Pianist Marcus Roberts keeps a full schedule: composing, recording, touring and teaching. On Nov. 12 he released three new albums on his own J-Master label. From...
View ArticleMarcus Roberts: “All Kinds of Things”
At 50, the pianist is as resourceful and ambitious as ever by Michael J. West Jazz Times, February 2014 “We were talking, the [Jazz at Lincoln Center] Orchestra, about who we consider to be a genius,”...
View ArticleVisionary Man: Marcus Roberts and his expansive view of jazz.
By Ted Panken Jazziz, February 2014 Wynton Marsalis, who does not suffer fools and has built an empire doing things his way, does not readily accept criticism. But when pianist Marcus Roberts speaks,...
View ArticleJamming behind the scenes with jazz greats
A 60 Minutes shoot never quite looked– or sounded– like this before. Life for jazz greats Wynton Marsalis and Marcus Roberts is a non-stop jam session. What’s it like to hang out with jazz musicians?...
View ArticleMarcus Roberts to Receive Honorary Doctorate from Juilliard School
Eight remarkable artists and philanthropists will be hooded and handed their degrees in person when The Juilliard School confers honorary doctorates during its 109th Commencement Ceremony on Friday,...
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MJG at Chicago Symphony Center
Marcus Roberts swings the Modern Jazz Generation by Howard Reich 8:14 a.m. CDT, June 12, 2014 Jazz musicians are not often profiled on TV’s “60 Minutes,” but the long-running news magazine earlier...
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Marcus Roberts Swings the Modern Jazz Generation
Marcus in deep thought Jazz musicians are not often profiled on TV’s “60 Minutes,” but the long-running news magazine earlier this year aimed its high-profile lens at one of the best: pianist Marcus...
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