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The first one -- the seminal one -- happened when Roberts was eight, and he collided with a new piano in his home in Jacksonville. He had been blind for four years, and was not so much startled as seduced. "I sat right down," Marcus says, in his soft but insistent voice...
A bit shy of two decades later, Roberts, 25, finds himself with an album that has climbed to the top of the Billboard jazz chart. The Truth Is Spoken Here is a dexterous and loving homage, "a tribute," Roberts says, "to the artists who were the masters of the form...
This is no coincidence. For the past four years, Roberts has been Marsalis' man on piano for both touring and recording. Marsalis plays trumpet on Truth, and his brother Delfeayo produced the album. The result has the righteous precision Marsalis brings to his playing, but this is Roberts' showcase.
He started noodling around on the piano when he was five, picking out notes when he accompanied his mother and father to church. It was these little improvs that led his parents to buy a piano. Roberts' mother was a gospel singer, his father a longshoreman, and it was no...
Bump! He was beginning to find his own way. There were other lessons to learn. His teacher played him some Art Tatum. Bump! " 'Does he have three hands?' It was the first time I heard something I couldn't see myself doing." He kept on learning and playing. He met...