Jazz Articles about Tony Marcus

Tony Marcus: Vanishing Point

by C. Michael Bailey
April 21, 2010

There are two ways to look at San Francisco-based guitarist-singer-song-writer Tony Marcus. The first is in the light of which guitarist-singer-songwriter he most closely resembles, Antonio Carlos Jobim; he could arguably be called the American Jobim, in fact. The second way is as a musical sommelier, one who knows music and all of the art that exists around it. Marcus is like Jobim in that his composing skills are superb, and he possesses the ability to express using different musical ...