ALBUMCollagically Speaking (feat. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Derrick Hodge, Taylor McFerrin & Justin Tyson)R+R=NOW, Robert Glasper & Terrace Martin
ALBUMRobert Glasper x KAYTRANADA: The ArtScience RemixesRobert Glasper Experiment
ALBUMArtScienceRobert Glasper Experiment
ALBUMEverything's BeautifulMiles Davis & Robert Glasper
ALBUMBlack Radio 2 (Deluxe Version)Robert Glasper Experiment
ALBUMBlack RadioRobert Glasper Experiment
ALBUMDouble BookedRobert Glasper
ALBUMIn My ElementRobert Glasper
ALBUMCanvasRobert Glasper
ALBUMMoodRobert Glasper Trio
ALBUMUnrehurstDamion Reid, Robert Glasper & Robert Hurst
The piano man who found the common ground between jazz, hip hop, and R&B.
About Robert Glasper
Artist Biography
Few artists have done more to infuse the sound of modern jazz with hip-hop and contemporary R&B than keyboardist/producer/songwriter Robert Glasper. When Glasper—born in Houston, Texas in 1978—emerged with 2004 debut album Mood, he was firmly entrenched in the jazz camp, embracing modern harmony and complicated rhythm with a focus on improvisation. He reinforced his jazz bona fides leading an acoustic trio on his first few albums for Blue Note. But by the end of the 2000s, he began mixing and matching styles at will, increasingly collaborating with rappers and singers like Bilal and Mos Def. His musical transition is electrifying on 2012 breakthrough Black Radio, where the collision was less about fusing jazz and hip-hop and more about tapping rhythmic and harmonic mutability in service to boom-bap grooves. (He’s gone on to produce multiple editions of the Black Radio series.) Glasper's instincts made him a natural in the producer role on albums like Kendrick Lamar's 2015 To Pimp a Butterfly. In the late 2010s, Glasper formed all-star groups R+R=NOW (including Terrace Martin and Christian Scott) and August Greene (with Common and Karriem Riggins) that underlined his collaborative impulses and disregard for genre purity. He's also scored for film and TV, including Issa Rae’s The Photograph and HBO’s Winning Time with Nicolas Britell and Jeff Beal. Glasper's aesthetic has been embraced and stretched by an ever-growing coterie that encompasses legends like Herbie Hancock and younger artists such as rapper and composer Denzel Curry.
Hometown
Houston, TX, United States
Genre
Jazz
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