Robert Glasper, With Special Guest Bilal
Sat. 03/10 | 9:00PM @ Double Door (map)
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One artist, two distinct but interwoven concepts: this is the
captivating logic behind Double-Booked, pianist Robert Glasper’s third
album for Blue Note, following up Canvas (2005) and In My Element
(2007). An artist who “unfailingly gets the feeling right” (New York
Magazine), Glasper has made waves throughout the music world as leader
of both the acoustic Robert Glasper Trio and the electric,
hip-hop-oriented Robert Glasper Experiment. With Double-Booked the
32-year-old Houston native puts his enviable versatility front and
center, emphasizing these different hemispheres of his musical brain at
the same time.
Hailed by listeners and critics, Glasper has also garnered the respect of the toughest audience of all: musicians from across the jazz spectrum. In a May 2008 Blindfold Test for Down Beat magazine, a fellow pianist instantly identified Glasper and praised him as “a fantastic musician,” pinpointing characteristics of his unique style: “a harmonic maze, but also an insistent rhythm, certain turns and filigrees and ornaments, some of them sort of gospelish.” With Double-Booked, Glasper further develops all these elements and pulls them together in a new synthesis, continuing his ascent to the top ranks of modern jazz artistry.
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Chicago Reader on Robert Glasper, With Special Guest Bilal @ Double Door
2 months agoRobert Glasper has earned a reputation as one jazz's most skilled, versatile, and progressive pianists, but he grew up immersed in soul and hip-hop. more at chicagoreader.com
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