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Marcus Roberts, Professor of Jazz Piano, is widely known as one of the preeminent American jazz pianists of his generation. Throughout his career, he has won numerous awards and competitions, including the 1982 Young Artist’s Award at the National Association of Jazz Educators’ conference and the Helen Keller Award for Personal Achievement in 1998. During the first fifteen years of his career, he completed over thirty recordings; and all, whether solo piano, with trio, big band, or symphony orchestra, have been critically acclaimed. His 1996 recording, Portraits in Blue, was the first to showcase the art of jazz improvisation within a traditional classical setting, and he continues to pursue new ways to bring the sounds of jazz and classical music together.
Roberts is an active jazz educator who has developed numerous outreach and residency programs for children of all ages. He has been instrumental to the training and development of a number of young musicians, including such great jazz artists as trumpeters Marcus Printup and Nicholas Payton, trombonist Ronald W
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Pianist Marcus Roberts fuses jazz and classical for his Rhapsody in D
Almost since the emergence of jazz in the 20th century, the boundaries between the American-born genre and classical music have been blurred.
As far back as the 1920s, classical composers incorporated jazz elements into works such as Darius Milhaud’s ballet La création du monde and George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. It went the other way, too, with jazz pianist James P. Johnson composing his Harlem Symphony in 1932 and jazz saxophonist Stan Getz featuring a string orchestra on his album “Focus” in 1961.
Cross-genre projects also have been a big part of the work of famed jazz pianist Marcus Roberts, who, along with his trio, will perform his Rhapsody in D at the Ravinia Festival with conductor Marin Alsop and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on July 16.
“As its title suggests, the Rhapsody in D for Piano and Orchestra pays homage to Gershwin’s two greatest piano-orchestral works — Rhapsody in Blue and Concerto in F — but its sources of inspiration stretch beyond that,” wrote Chicago Tribune jazz critic
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Marcus Roberts
American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader
For the British actor, see Marcus Roberts (actor).
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Roberts at the Festival de Jazz de Vitoria, 2010 | |
| Birth name | Marthaniel Roberts |
| Born | (1963-08-07) August 7, 1963 (age 61) Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz, swing, classical |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, arranger |
| Instrument | Piano |
| Years active | 1980s–present |
| Labels | Novus, Columbia, J-Master |
| Website | www.marcusroberts.com |
Musical artist
Marthaniel "Marcus" Roberts (born August 7, 1963)[1] is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and teacher.
Early life
Roberts was born in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.[1] His mother was a gospel singer who had gone blind as a teenager, and his father was a longshoreman.[2] Blind since age five due to glaucoma and cataracts,[3] Roberts started learning the piano at age five by picking out notes on the instrument at his church until his parents bought a piano when he was eight.
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