{"id":911,"date":"2012-05-23T08:06:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T12:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/?p=911"},"modified":"2012-05-29T10:42:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T14:42:05","slug":"marcus-roberts-weirds-classic-jazz-frees-banjos-fleck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2012\/05\/marcus-roberts-weirds-classic-jazz-frees-banjos-fleck.html","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Roberts weirds classic jazz, frees banjo’s Fleck"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pianist Marcus Roberts has broad reach and pushme-pullyou ideas, reharmonizing Jelly Roll Morton and improvising freely with banjoist Bela Fleck, as I detail in my latest column<\/a> in CityArts-New York.<\/p>\n

At Jazz at Lincoln Center Robert, the blind visionary, led a sextet that hewed to Morton’s structures while incorporating a handful of solo styles from different jazz eras, and on the album Across the Imaginary Divide<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>he and Fleck compare, contrast and co-join their individually distinct musical directions. The two are currently on tour<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(backed by Roberts’ trio mates bassist Rodney Jordan and drummer Jason Marsalis), from Maine to San Francisco, making music that (like it or not) stands most genre assumptions upside down.<\/p>\n

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Pianist Marcus Roberts has broad reach and pushme-pullyou ideas, reharmonizing Jelly Roll Morton and improvising freely with banjoist Bela Fleck, as I detail in my latest column in CityArts-New York. 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