{"id":7031,"date":"2012-08-02T03:09:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T10:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7031"},"modified":"2012-08-02T03:09:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T10:09:05","slug":"bela-fleck-and-the-marcus-roberts-trio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/08\/bela-fleck-and-the-marcus-roberts-trio\/","title":{"rendered":"B\u00c9LA FLECK AND THE MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7032\" title=\"BELA-FLECK-AND-THE-MARCUS-ROBERTS-TRIO-M-Review-June2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/BELA-FLECK-AND-THE-MARCUS-ROBERTS-TRIO-M-Review-June2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/BELA-FLECK-AND-THE-MARCUS-ROBERTS-TRIO-M-Review-June2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/BELA-FLECK-AND-THE-MARCUS-ROBERTS-TRIO-M-Review-June2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>B<\/strong><strong>\u00c9LA FLECK AND THE MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Across the Imaginary Divide<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Rounder]<\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s a new challenge, B\u00e9la Fleck and his banjo are always ready to take it on. Marcus Roberts is also an adventurer; from the earliest days of the pianist\u2019s career and throughout his near quarter-century as a leader, Roberts has aimed to redefine the jazz piano trio in part by de-emphasizing the piano\u2019s dominance and throwing more responsibility to the rhythm section. On\u00a0<em>Across the Imaginary Divide<\/em>, that delegation sometimes works the way it\u2019s supposed to\u2014but not always. Fleck\u2019s banjo is so distinctive and forceful that Roberts at times comes off as a sideman rather than co-leader. Even Roberts\u2019 trio mates, bassist Rodney Jordan\u00a0and drummer Jason Marsalis, seem to push harder here when Fleck is pointing the way. The title track is an example of the collaboration cohering more democratically. Atop the rhythm section\u2019s\u00a0jaunty, propulsive cadence, Roberts and Fleck dance intimately,\u00a0each working the nuances of the melody and playfully goading\u00a0the other onward. \u2013Jeff Tamarkin<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B\u00c9LA FLECK AND THE MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO Across the Imaginary Divide [Rounder] If there\u2019s a new challenge, B\u00e9la Fleck and his banjo are always ready to take it on. Marcus Roberts is also an adventurer; from the earliest days of the pianist\u2019s career and throughout his near quarter-century as a leader, Roberts has aimed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[4465,4466,164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7033,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7031\/revisions\/7033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}