Marcus Roberts News

This year's London Jazz Festival is strong on new-generation pianists restructuring the acoustic piano trio and burrowing into the relationship between harmony and pulse.

Savannah Music Festival has selected twelve outstanding high school jazz bands from more than 50 applications to participate in the fifth annual SWING CENTRAL High School Jazz Band Competition & Workshop.

Lang Lang The Assad Brothers will perform with Roby Lakatos Ensemble on March 19 at the Lucas Theatre.

It means conversation between dancers and audiences, dancers and choreographers, dancers and musicians, and dancers and other dancers.

One of the most creative and controversial writers on the international stage will provide the finale for an eclectic 12th annual Seven Days of Opening Nights arts festival in February.

Last week at this time I was in California for the Monterey Jazz Festival, a three-day celebration of mostly jazz and the longest-running festival of its kind in the world: 52 consecutive years.

Pianist Marcus Roberts, who performed Tuesday night at the Dakota jazz club, hasn't achieved household-name status among jazz fans - yet, anyway.

With his world-famous older brothers Wynton on ``headliner'' trumpet and Branford on sexy saxophone, Delfeayo Marsalis chose the trombone, gawky and U-shaped, without valves and prone to growl rather than purr.

With his world-famous older brothers Wynton on ``headliner'' trumpet and Branford on sexy saxophone, Delfeayo Marsalis chose the trombone, gawky and U-shaped, without valves and prone to growl rather than purr.

With his world-famous older brothers Wynton on ``headliner'' trumpet and Branford on sexy saxophone, Delfeayo Marsalis chose the trombone, gawky and U-shaped, without valves and prone to growl rather than purr.

With his world-famous older brothers Wynton on ``headliner'' trumpet and Branford on sexy saxophone, Delfeayo Marsalis chose the trombone, gawky and U-shaped, without valves and prone to growl rather than purr.

TITLE: a oeSay it Plaina ARTIST: Scotty Barnhart STARS: 4 1/2 Out Of 5 Stars SOUNDS LIKE: mainstream jazz with a subtle bluesy and contemporary bent.

Marcus Roberts draws few distinctions between the playful and the professorial. As a pianist, bandleader and composer-arranger he balances erudition against reserves of charisma and wit.

Jeremy Adam Smith talks about what happens when fathers become stay-at-home dads, a growing trend in this current economic crunch.