Robert Glasper: Bridging Jazz, Hi...
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Robert Glasper: Bridging Jazz, Hip-Hop, Gospel, and R&B
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Robert Glasper has won a Grammy for Best R&B Album, played keyboards on Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly, covered Radiohead on acoustic piano, and earned an Emmy for a song in Ava DuVernay's documentary 13th. This episode follows the Houston pianist from the jazz clubs where his mother, a jazz and blues singer, brought him as a child, through Sunday mornings playing in Baptist, Catholic, and Seventh-day Adventist churches, to the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and the New School in New York.

We look at his double life as a sideman for Christian McBride and Roy Hargrove while working with Bilal, Jill Scott, J Dilla, and Mos Def, the Blue Note album that fused Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage with Radiohead's Everything in Its Right Place, the split-personality record Double Booked, and the 2012 breakthrough Black Radio  ... 

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