“Jazz is literally in the beginning-bones of hip hop,” Glasper tells Apple Music. “That’s why I even used the word derivation, because it’s a derivative of jazz. I’ve played with the masters of both ...
Robert Glasper knows the key to success. When nominations for the 2026 Grammy Awards were revealed on Nov. 7, the pianist and record producer earned his 16th career nod, this one for Best Alternative ...
In late May, Robert Glasper released his Miles Davis tribute album Everything’s Beautiful, and several weeks later Nonesuch Records issued the late Allen Toussaint’s American Tunes. Glasper and ...
Robert Glasper on the House of Blues stage Credit: Photo by Violeta Alvarez As the band dropped the tempo and brought their volume down to a whisper, Robert Glasper began to play a familiar riff on ...
Glasper’s caustic frustration with the jazz world’s navel-gazing (“I feel like jazz needs a big-ass slap,” he wrote in DownBeat in 2012) might imply a radical approach, but in many cases Glasper plays ...
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