Robert Glasper – Breaking Cover
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Robert Glasper’s recent double Grammy Award wins for his two Black Radio albums have capped an 11-year career that has not just seen him break through to the mainstream like few other jazz artists today, but has also seen Glasper forge deep bonds between today’s jazz, R&B and hip-hop scenes.
Back with his original rhythm section of drummer Damion Reid and bassist Vicente Archer for his new album Covered, this simmering piano trio joins the dots between Radiohead, Joni Mitchell, hip-hopper du jour Kendrick Lamar, and jazz standard ‘Stella By Starlight’. Ahead of UK dates this month John Murph spoke to Glasper, Reid and Archer about how reconnecting as a trio – and in turn reconnecting jazz to a bigger socio-political and musical spectrum – is all part of their multi-layered modus operandi
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