MARCUS ROBERTS OCTET
NOVEMBER 13th – NOVEMBER 18th

Alphonso Horne (trumpet)
Corey Wilcox (trombone)
Ricardo Pascal (tenor and soprano saxophones)
Joe Goldberg (alto saxophone and clarinet)
Boyce Griffith (tenor saxophone)
Marcus Roberts (piano)
Thaddeus Expose (bass)
Jason Marsalis (drums)

In 2014, Marcus Roberts was honored to have his life and work featured on a segment of the celebrated CBS News television show 60 Minutes. The show, entitled “The Virtuoso”, traced Roberts’ life to date from his early roots in Jacksonville and at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind to his remarkable career as a modern jazz musician. Roberts is perhaps best known for the development of an entirely new approach to jazz trio performance.

Roberts toured with Wynton Marsalis starting at age 21 for six years, when he left to tour and record with his own band. Roberts’ critically-acclaimed legacy of recorded music reflects his tremendous versatility as an artist; his recordings include solo piano, duets, and trio arrangements of jazz standards as well as original suites of music, large ensemble works, and symphony orchestra recordings.