How To Book ROBERT GLASPER For Your Event!
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How to Hire ROBERT GLASPER For Your Event!
GRAMMY AWARD winning Robert Andre Glasper (born April 6, 1978) is an American
pianist, record producer, songwriter, and musical arranger. His artistry bridges
several different musical and artistic genres, mostly centered on jazz. To date,
Robert Glasper has won five Grammy Awards and received eleven nominations
across eight categories.
Outside of his own musical work, he has co-written and produced on albums by Mac
Miller, Anderson .Paak,
Banks,
Herbie Hancock,
Big K.R.I.T.,
Brittany Howard,
Bilal,
Denzel Curry,
Q-Tip, and
Talib Kweli amongst
others. He won the 2017 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and
Lyrics for his song "A Letter to the Free" featured in Ava DuVernay’s critically
hailed documentary, 13th, with
Common and Karriem Riggins.
Glasper also composed the score for the documentary film The Apollo, and
composed the original score for Issa Rae's The Photograph.
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He has also been an Artist in Residence at some of the most prestigious
festivals and institutions worldwide, including the London Jazz Festival,
North Sea Jazz Festival, The Kennedy Center, Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie
Hall, and the Blue Note Jazz Club.
Robert Glasper straddles two distinct worlds. He is an accomplished jazz
pianist who was signed to Blue Note Records in his mid-twenties. And he works
with many hip-hop and R&B artists, both in the studio and on the stage:
Q-Tip (musician),
Mos Def, and
Maxwell, to name a few.
Glasper cites Tribe Called Quest as his gateway to hip-hop.
In February 2012, Robert Glasper released his fifth and seminal album,
Black Radio, which featured performances by a lineup of neo-soul and hip-hop
artists, including Lupe
Fiasco, Bilal,
Lalah Hathaway,
Erykah Badu, and
Yasiin Bey.
In October 2013, Glasper released Black Radio 2. The core remained the
Robert Glasper Experiment, featuring Robert Glasper on keyboards, Derrick
Hodge on bass, Mark Colenburg on drums, and Casey Benjamin on vocoder and
saxophone. Guest vocalists included
Common, Brandy,
Jill Scott,
Marsha Ambrosius,
Anthony Hamilton,
Faith Evans,
Norah Jones,
Snoop Dogg,
Lupe Fiasco, and
Emeli Sandé.
On June 16, 2015, Robert Glasper released Covered, a return to his
acoustic piano trio format alongside musicians Damion Reid and Vicente Archer.
The album features cover songs, drawn from an eclectic variety of artists,
including Radiohead,
John Legend,
Kendrick Lamar,
and Joni Mitchell.
2015 saw Robert Glasper and
Lauryn Hill co-produce
Nina Revisited... A Tribute to Nina Simone, an all-star tribute album
pegged to the release of Liz Garbus's documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?
The album features artists bringing a contemporary reimagining of Nina Simone's
catalogue, including contributions from
Usher,
Common, and
Mary J. Blige.
2016 saw Glasper receive attention for his prominent role on
Kendrick Lamar's
critically acclaimed album To Pimp a Butterfly, notably playing on the
Grammy-winning track, "These Walls".
In October 2016, Glasper co-hosted the inaugural Blue Note Cruise alongside
Gregory Porter.
In January 2017, Robert Glasper performed with
Christina
Aguilera at Taking the Stage, the celebratory concert
commemorating the opening of the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African
American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. It was hosted by
Dave
Chappelle and featured a plethora of other icons of black music and
culture including
Stevie Wonder,
Mary J. Blige, Chuck D, and others.
In September 2017, Glasper appeared on a live stream with
Esperanza
Spalding while recording "Heaven in Pennies" for Spalding's album,
Exposure, which was released in December 2017.
Glasper's albums are centered on his work as a solo artist and two bands: The
Robert Glasper Trio (on piano Robert Glasper, drummer Damion Reid, and
bassist Vicente Archer) as an acoustic jazz trio, and The Robert Glasper
Experiment (Glasper, drummer Mark Colenburg, saxophonist/vocoderist Casey
Benjamin and bassist Derrick Hodge) as an electronic act that defies genre norms
from any single discipline.
"That's what makes this band unique... We can go anywhere, literally anywhere,
we want to go. We all have musical ADD and we love it."
With primary influences in neo-soul, hip-hop, jazz, gospel, and R&B, Robert
Glasper also has reinterpreted songs from rock acts Nirvana,
Radiohead, Soundgarden,
and David Bowie. As a jazz artist, Rashod D. Ollison reviewed him after the
release of Canvas as "a gifted jazz musician with a brilliant, energetic
technique and a fresh, mesmerizing sense of melody and composition".
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