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Lenny Marcus hails from Washington, DC, but studied, performed and recorded for many years in New Orleans, LA, before relocating to Roanoke, VA. He is leader on 18 albums, and has studied and recorded with many jazz legends, including David "Fathead" Newman, Brian Lynch, Sonny Fortune, Frank Foster, Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Alvin Batist, Ellis Marsalis, Jane Powell and many others. His music has been featured on the National Weather Channel (many songs over the last several years), NPR’s ALL that Jazz and ALL Songs Considered. Two of his songs were finalists in the ISC international song writer’s competition. Marcus has played in three New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festivals, two international festivals in Barbados and Grenada, and his music has been used for many years on the National Weather Channel's Local on the Eights and CNN's Heroes series

Article: Radio & Podcasts

The Jazz Defenders, Joe Henderson, Tim Lin & Eyal Vilner

by Joe Dimino
June 9, 2024

Straight from the UK, we begin the 858th Episode of Neon Jazz with The Jazz Defenders with material off their 2024 album Memory in Motion. In honor of their influences, we move into a recent reissue of Horace Silver's LP Late Night. From there, we hear new music from Julieta Eugenio, Flávio Silva and Lenny Marcus ...

Album

When a Door Opens

By Lenny Marcus

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Norwegian Wood; Dexter; Guaraldi’s Dilemma; Twelve for Brubeck; Song for McCoy; When a Door Opens; Twice the Spice; Tune for Herbie; Ode to My Piano Heroes; Snow Waltz; Beethoven’s Waldstein Blues/Ode to Joy.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Kris Davis, Cole Porter & Lenny Marcus

by Joe Dimino
June 12, 2022

Washington DC-area pianist Lenny Marcus begins the 755th Episode of Neon Jazz with new material off his latest 2022 album When a Door Opens. We also hear new works from Ermelinda Cuellar, Kristina Koller and the Diva Jazz Orchestra. Balancing all this new material are classics from The California Ramblers, Aretha Franklin and Muggsy Spanier. A ...

Article: Album Review

Lenny Marcus Trio: When a Door Opens

Read "When a Door Opens" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 18, 2022

Whenever Lenny Marcus sits down to play the piano, elegance and finesse are sure to follow. Such is the case on When a Door Opens, wherein Marcus leads his trio—Zachary McDonald on bass and Denver Nuckolls on drums—through a series of persuasive tributes to his musical heroes, one of whom--Dexter Gordon--is not a pianist, and another--Ludwig ...

Album

Moving Fourth

By Lenny Marcus

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016

Album

The Jazz of Beethoven

By Lenny Marcus

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2011

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Take Five With Lenny Marcus

by AAJ Staff
October 26, 2011

Meet Lenny Marcus: Lenny Marcus hails from Washington, DC, but studied, performed and recorded for many years in New Orleans, LA, before relocating to Roanoke, VA. He is leader on 18 albums, and has studied and recorded with many jazz legends, including David Fathead" Newman, Brian Lynch, Sonny Fortune, Frank Foster, Charlie Byrd, Herb ...