Marcus Roberts

It was a tribute to McCoy Tyner with McCoy.

So there was, uh, it was myself, Kenny Barron, Benny Green, Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, uh, Joe Lovano, Jerry Allen, and Marcus Roberts.

And, uh, but I just remember sitting on the piano with Chick Corea, and I'm looking across the, at McCoy Tyner, and I'm like, you know, it's just, it felt, felt like I was hallucinating.

And, um, and, and yeah.

Yeah.

You know, from the very beginning, we started with Raul Midón, Diane Schuur, Branford Marsalis, Marcus Roberts.

You know, and we have hundreds of musicians performing every year.

So, uh, you know, we've had really good music production companies help us find the talent and secure the talent, um, and that's remained the same.

I know that there are times when things pop up and you go, I just don't know where that came from or some deeper self or something.

I would say Marcus Roberts would say the unconscious, allowing the unconscious to do its thing.

And you could call it your unconscious or you could call it God if you want.

You know, it's coming from somewhere and maybe it doesn't matter in a certain way.

And I tried to do that as little as possible.

Where other people like, for instance, Marcus Roberts, he has a highly improvised version of Rhapsody in Blue, which is awesome.

But he's a piano player.

Him playing the classical version wouldn't have been the same creative effort for him.