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A composer, producer, playwright, and conductor, Marcus Vinicius has play an important part in Brazilian popular music He was also as the A&R director of the much celebrated Discos Marcus Pereira recording company, specialized in historical and folkloric musical research, and, in the ’90s, of the CPC-UMES, another recording company devoted to quality artists who cannot find opportunities in the commercial sector
Because he has spent most of his career in Detroit and has not recorded enough, Marcus Belgrave has often been overlooked A flexible and talented trumpeter able to play both hard bop and free, Belgrave was tutored by Clifford Brown a bit when he was 17
A smooth jazz keyboardist, Marcus Johnson incorporates the rhythms of rap with the soul of R&B Johnson grew up listening to a broad variety of music: his mother played classical piano and his first memorable concert experience was seeing an Earth, Wind & Fire show with his father
Primarily a bassist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer, Marcus Miller has worked on hundreds of sessions — crossing jazz, R&B, and rock — and has released several solo recordings since his late ’70s beginnings with Bobbi Humphrey and Lonnie Liston Smith
A talented trumpeter with a lot of potential, Marcus Printup was discovered by Marcus Roberts at the University of North Florida in 1991 Printup started on trumpet in the fifth grade, played funk as a teenager, and in college was part of a ten-piece band called Soul Reason for the Blues
Marcus Roberts is a very talented — if very raw — young musician, whose good fortune it was to capture the attention and goodwill of the all-powerful Wynton Marsalis
Tuba player Marcus Rojas has played in a wide variety of musical contexts, with artists ranging from the American Symphony Orchestra to reggae’s Sly & Robbie; from jazz great Lionel Hampton to extremist artist Foetus
A talented guitarist since the late 1980’s, Margaret Slovak finally came out with her debut recording in 1998, an introspective set of unaccompanied solos, Undying Hope
Jazz singer Margie Baker pursued her musical career part-time for many years while maintaining a full-time job in the San Francisco school district and raising a family She was born in Center, TX, in about 1937
Japanese violinist and composer Mari Kimura is active in both modern classical and improvised music She has performed with the Tokyo Philharmonic and Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and premiered works by Jean-Claude Risset, Toshi Ichiyanagi, and more