dianne reeves
& the marcus
roberts trio
February 24 • 8pm
Tickets: $15 - $65 / purchase tickets
Lee Hall (FAMU Campus) / see a map
Parking: Extremely limited / view parking & shuttle information
Dianne Reeves and Marcus Roberts are two of jazz’s brightest lights, yet they have never performed onstage together...until now. Seven Days of Opening Nights proudly presents the first joint performance by Dianne Reeves and the Marcus Roberts Trio, featuring Jason Marsalis (drums) and Roland Guerin (bass), with all-new arrangements by Roberts.
Reeves has earned four Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album for four consecutive records, the first time that feat has been accomplished. She has put her three-plusoctave range to good use, collaborating with Wynton Marsalis, Harry Belafonte and the Chicago Symphony.
Marcus Roberts is Tallahassee’s secret
jazz weapon, a local resident and FSU
faculty member who just happens to have a
worldwide reputation as one of the finest jazz
pianists alive. This marks the first time in his
illustrious 25-year-career that Roberts has
performed with a singer.
“He’s a genius, man,” Roberts’ former boss Wynton Marsalis told the Tallahassee Democrat. “He’s invented a way of playing that’s all his own. Do you know how hard that is to do? Nobody else plays like Marcus.”
sponsored by Florida A&M University 
schedule
- 4 New Exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts
- The Blind Boys of Alabama & Mavis Staples
- Saturday Matinee of the Arts
- Junot Diaz
- Noche Flamenca
- Shawn Colvin
- MacHomer
- Simone Dinnerstein
- Dianne Reeves & the Marcus Roberts Trio
- Turtle Island String Quartet
- Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
- Geoffrey Gilmore
- Dr. John & the Lower 911 and The Neville Brothers
- David Sedaris
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