Today, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on pianist Marcus Roberts. Roberts plays jazz piano like he's lived through its entire history. His style pulls from Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller as much ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Marcus Roberts Jazz pianist Marcus Roberts came to fame in the 1980s, as one of the “young lions” who gloried in the music’s ...

Jazz, that most American of idioms, has a cozy winter home in Miami, with festivals, series and individual concerts showcasing the expansiveness of a form that is arguably our country's greatest ...

Marcus Roberts is a pianist known for his proficiency in early piano styles like stride and ragtime, seasoned with a bit of expressive dissonance à la Thelonious Monk. Béla Fleck is a banjoist known ...