Robert Glasper

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Robert Glasper (born April 5, 1978 in Houston , Texas ) is an American jazz pianist . According to laut.de , he cultivates “a unique symbiosis of jazz and hip-hop ”.

Live and act

Glasper was musically influenced by his mother, who was a gospel singer, but also led a band and performed with her in regional blues and jazz clubs. At the age of twelve he played the piano for the first time in church. He attended the prestigious Houston High School for the Performing and Visual Arts before moving to New York to study at The New School University. As a student he played with Christian McBride , Kenny Garrett and Russell Malone . He then worked with Roy Hargrove , Carmen Lundy and Terence Blanchard ( Bounce , 2003). In 2004 he released his debut album Mood , which was followed a year later by the first album on the major Blue Note Records label , Canvas . His mother and second husband were murdered in 2004. The music got him over it, he said in an interview, he lived his grief on the piano. In 2007 his third album In My Element was released .

Glasper was also influenced by hip hop; therefore there was a collaboration with artists of this music genre, including Bilal , Mos Def , Common , Talib Kweli , Slum Village , Jay-Z , J Dilla and Erykah Badu . In addition to his jazz trio, he also appears together with Derrick Hodge , Chris Dave and Casey Benjamin under the name The Robert Glasper Experiment , where he experiments with the fusion of jazz and hip-hop. Glasper has also worked with Laïka Fatien , Jeremy Pelt , Marcus Strickland and Jaleel Shaw . Supported by Erykah Badu, Stevie Wonder and other celebrities, he reinterpreted songs by Davis in 2016 (supported by samples from Miles Davis ).

John Fordham paid tribute to him in The Guardian as follows:

"As a jazz virtuoso who cleverly pretends to be, as a hip-hop artist who seldom gets loud, and as an improviser with the awareness of a classical pianist for weighing up every sound, Glasper has both the discipline and the ability to think freely. Plate-watching to keep up with the elder statesman of these virtues, Herbie Hancock . "
Robert Glasper at the Leverkusener Jazz Days 2016

Prizes and awards

In 2012 he received the Rising Star Award for Jazz Musician of the Year in the Down Beat Critic Polls and in 2013 the album Black Radio received the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album . The album Jesus Experiment brought another Grammy in 2015 in the category Best Traditional R&B Performance .

Discographic notes

  • Mood ( Fresh Sound / New Talent , 2004; recorded 2002)
  • Canvas ( Blue Note , 2005)
  • In My Element (Blue Note, 2007)
  • Double Booked (Blue Note, 2009)
  • Black Radio (Blue Note, 2012)
  • Black Radio Recovered: The Remix EP (Blue Note, 2012)
  • Black Radio 2 (Blue Note, 2013)
  • Jesus Experiment (featuring Lalah Hathaway & Malcolm Jamal Warner, 2014)
  • Covered, Recorded Live at Capitol Studios (Blue Note, 2015)
  • Robert Glasper / Miles Davis: Everything's Beautiful ( Columbia / Legacy 2016)
  • ArtScience (Blue Note, 2016)
  • Fuck Yo Feelings (Loma Vista Recordings 2019)
Robert Glasper (Leverkusener Jazztage 2016)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians: Glasper, Robert ( Memento from September 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English, accessed July 31, 2012)
  2. ↑ Peter Culshaw in The Telegraph of November 22, 2007: Robert Glasper: The pianist whose jazz is filled with soul (Culshaw erroneously writes “[…] were murdered last year”).
  3. ↑ Glasper dedicated his Grammy to her in 2013; s. the video of his thanks. ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / robertglasper.com
  4. ↑ Nate Chinen: The Corner of Jazz and Hip-Hop (2012) in In February 2012 he played with the Robert Glasper Experiment in New York's Blue Note with Lupe Fiasco and Kanye West . Lupe Fiasco and Robert Glasper interview with The Revivalist
  5. ↑ John Fordham Robert Glasper Trio review - an enthralling jazz performance in the Guardian 2015
  6. ^ "Down Beat" awards 2012 , Spiegel online December 8, 2012
  7. ↑ Exclusive: Robert Glasper's Next Experiment Is a Return to Jazz . Retrieved May 25, 2017.
  8. ↑ Rolling Stone Review
  9. ^ Robert Glasper Experiment Detail New Album ArtScience, Share “Find You”: Listen . Retrieved May 25, 2017.
  10. ↑ Michael Rüsenberg : Robert Glasper Experiment Fuck Yo Feelings. In: jazzcity.de. February 8, 2020, accessed February 20, 2020 .

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SURNAME Glasper, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5th 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston , Texas , USA