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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. [2]
Deep in the Shed is the second studio album by jazz pianist Marcus Roberts, a protégé of trumpet player Wynton Marsalis.The album features Roberts playing chords on his left hand and "somewhat dark improvisations that burst into fireworks less often than you'd expect" with his right hand.
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Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F is an album by Marcus Roberts, his trio and the Saito Kinen Orchestra under the direction of Seiji Ozawa, recorded live at the Saito Kinen Festival in 2005. It features Roberts' arrangement of Gershwin's concerto. This was Roberts' second time working with Ozawa on a live recording, A Gershwin Night being the first ...
Across the Imaginary Divide is a 2012 album by banjoist Béla Fleck and jazz pianist Marcus Roberts. ... (Roberts) - 5:42 "Across The Imaginary Divide" (Fleck) - 4:42
The competition has been won by Joshua Redman, winner of the 1991 saxophone competition, Marcus Roberts, winner of the 1987 piano competition, Ryan Kisor, winner of the 1990 trumpet competition, and Joey DeFrancesco, a finalist in the 1987 piano competition.
Marcus Aaron Robertson (born October 2, 1969) is an American football coach and former safety who is the defensive backs coach for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as an assistant coach for the Arizona Cardinals , Denver Broncos , Oakland Raiders , Detroit Lions and Tennessee Titans .
Jazz pianist Marcus Roberts called the album "a masterpiece in jazz" and cited it as a template for his 1990 album Alone with Three Giants. "When you think of great artists paying homage to great artists, that one recording let me know what I had to do." [7]