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Robert Glasper Experiment feat. Norah Jones - Let It Ride https://t.co/pEbCKhApxc via @YouTube

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Mark your calendars: The Robert Glasper Experiment's latest album, "ArtScience," will be released via Blue Note on Sept. 16.

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Robert Glasper at Jazz Tibet Club – Olomouc, Czech Republic.

Jul 1, 2015
Andrew Read

Glasper, bassist Vicente Archer and drummer Damion Reid—who form the original trio featured on Glasper’s first two Blue Note albums: Canvas (2005) and In My Element (2007)—reconvened at the legendary Capitol Studios in Hollywood, California in December to record the album in front of an intimate live audience. The set list features songs by hip-hop and R&B stars like Kendrick Lamar, Jhené Aiko, John Legend, Musiq Soulchild, and Bilal alongside the jazz standard “Stella By Starlight.”

Displaying his trademark eclecticism, Glasper also includes tunes by Radiohead and Joni Mitchell, along with a stirring collaboration with legendary singer/activist Harry Belafonte. The Glasper originals on the album include a re-working of “I Don’t Even Care,” a bonus track from Black Radio 2 that featured Macy Gray and Jean Grae.

This Summer Robert Glasper will be touring Europe playing more than twenty festival and club dates that will see him and the band visit most corners of the continent. Of special note is the concert on July 13 at the Jazz Tibet Club in Olomouc, Czech Republic.

The Jazz Tibet Club resides in the center of the historic town of Olomouc and is one of the Czech Republic’s best known live music venues featuring a strong program of local, European and international artists.

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Date: July 13 2015

JAZZ TIBET CLUB
Sokolská 48, 772 00 Olomouc, The Czech Republic

NPR Music - Jazz

Robert Glasper Experiment: Tiny Desk Concert The pianist builds R&B with old-school values: singers who don't need software, live improvising, hand-built beats. They're jazz aesthetics, essentially — readily evident when members of his Grammy-winning Experiment band jam with singer Marsha Ambrosius. Read this story

A BLOG SUPREME To Preserve 'America's Gift To The World,' A Jazz Elder Becomes A UCLA Professor When he was studying jazz in the '50s and becoming a revered guitarist, Kenny Burrell vowed to teach the subject one day. Now, decades after his first class, he's never committed more to music education. Read this story

MARIAN MCPARTLAND'S PIANO JAZZ Jim Hall On Piano Jazz The innovative guitarist plays "Blue Monk" with host Marian McPartland in a session from 2003. Read this story

MUSIC REVIEWS Lafayette Gilchrist: An Old Soul, At Ease In A Modern World On Gilchrist's The View From Here, go-go dance beats inform his piano the same way freight-train boogie-woogie does. Read this story

JAZZSET WITH DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER Patrick Cornelius On JazzSet Inspired by A.A. Milne's 1924 book of poetry, When We Were Very Young, Cornelius presents a composition commissioned by Chamber Music America. It features Bill Evans-like voicings and Ellingtonian ideas. Read this story

Robert Glasper: Making Jazz Cool Again

 By John Moultrie

In this video from iRockJazz, Robert Glasper gives a solid recommendation for how to make jazz cool again: Supporting the new music of today, while remixing the traditions of the past and allowing the naturally hip appeal of jazz to emerge instead of confining it to a box.
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WBGO Studio Session: Robert Glasper Trio - "Enoch's (Inaugural) Meditation"

Jazz pianist Robert Glasper plays an original composition "Enoch's Meditation," with narrative from Martin Luther King's 1966 "We Shall Overcome" speech, Barack Obama's presidential election night victory speech from Grant Park in Chicago, audio from Dr. Cornel West, and a spontaneous piano reharmonization of the presidential anthem, "Hail to the Chief." This performance was recorded January 14th at WBGO Studios in Newark, New Jersey. Produced by Josh Jackson. Mix by Josh Webb, with assistance from David Tallacksen. Happy Inauguration 2009, from the jazz community!

Robert Glasper - Double Booked (Blue Note, 2009)

Pianist and composer Robert Glasper is a multi-faceted musician who enjoys many different genres of music. On this album, he uses two different ensembles, The Robert Glasper Trio which plays acoustic jazz and The Robert Glasper Experiment which combines jazz, hip-hop and soul music. The first half of the album features the acoustic trio with Vicente Archer on bass and Chris Dave on drums. The trio has a nice flowing melodic concept to their music, and "No Worries" is a nice example of this with the group playing well integrated modern jazz. "Yes I’m Country (And That’s O.k.)" has a gentle yearning melody, and a light and flowing improvisation that reminds me of some of Keith Jarrett's music from the early 1970's. "Downtime" spotlights a nice bass solo and some fine brushwork on a mellow groove.

The highlight of the album for me was a rousing performance of the Thelonious Monk classic "Think of One" with the group playing a rapidly shifting improvisation that hints at the melody in a unique and thoughtful manner. "Butterfly" opens the electric side of the album, with Casey Benjamin on saxophone, Derrick Hodge on electric bass, Chris Dave on drums, Jahi Sundance on turntables, and Bilal and Mos Def on vocals. The use of vocals distorted with a vocoder recalls 70's experimental records by Herbie Hancock (Feets Don't Fail Me Now) and Neil Young (Trans.) Glasper chips in a nice Fender Rhodes electric piano solo. "Festival" is the highlight of the Glasper Experiment tracks with some really nice saxophone and funky drumming adding some much needed energy to the music. "For You" has the vocoder returning for some music that sounds surprisingly tame. "All Matter" drops the distortion for soulful vocals over an an instrumental backdrop, and "Open Mind" finishes things up with a slow vibe featuring some recorded spoken word in the mix followed by wordless live vocals.
Although I admire Glasper's willingness to experiment, for me the most interesting tracks were the ones recorded by the acoustic trio. They had a nimble and fresh nature that kept the music interesting and compelling. By contrast, the music by the Glasper Experiment seemed forced at times with the use of the vocoder giving the music a timelocked and dated feel. In the end it was a bit of a mixed bag, and the split dualism of the album may make it difficult to appeal to either straight ahead jazz or R&B partisans.
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