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He struck up a friendship at the New School with innovative R&B singer Bilal, whose records are among Glasper's earliest credits.īut even early on he was twisting threads together. In the late '90s, HSPVA alumni - guys like drummer Kendrick Scott and guitarist Mike Moreno - banded together and formed a formidable core of young artists on New York's jazz scene. Glasper earned a spot at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York after graduation.
He'd seen a poster of Peterson on the wall.īut he excelled in the school, though at a more measured pace than some of his classmates. Glasper answered "Oscar Peterson." A good answer, only Glasper didn't know Peterson's music. During the audition, department head Robert Morgan asked Glasper about his favorite pianist. The young keyboardist clearly had chops, but his interest in the music was still cold. Glasper kind of bluffed his way into HSPVA's jazz program. When he got benched on the basketball team, "I just slid that bench over to the piano." "I could play, but I was way more into sports than music." "I wasn't that serious about piano," he says. He'd play a little piano, catching the ear of the owner, who recommended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. When Glasper turned 16 he'd drop her off at a gig at Bistro Vino and then come pick her up at closing time. That meant nights singing jazz, blues, R&B and, occasionally, country.
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But as a professional singer, she'd customize her set for each venue. Kim Yvette Glasper Dobbs sang in church on Sundays. Glasper's mother was a singer who'd bring him along to gigs. 'Get up, get out of bed, we're going to see Earth, Wind & Fire.' " "I didn't want to go, and she almost spanked my butt. Glasper remembers being 12 and his mother telling him they were going to see Earth, Wind & Fire at the Astrodome for a rodeo appearance. He laughs talking about his project with Bailey. And even then he was slow to fully commit to his instrument. To hear Glasper tell it, those goals didn't come into focus until high school. But I have to treat this like a business at times. They don't think about how opportunities are springboards for other opportunities. "Singers have teams behind them, with strategies," he says. Glasper is aware the singers and rappers present a more public face than session players. Do an album on a little label that does OK, move to a big label and make some straight-up jazz records that let me transform and do other (expletive)." "Seriously, I wish I'd written all this (expletive) down," he says, laughing. But they're also part of a diligently plotted path. "I'm just staring at my Emmy right now, drinking some coffee and talking to you," he says.
And he and rapper Common just won an Emmy for "Letters To The Free," from the Netflix original documentary "13th."
He co-produced "Miles Ahead," the Grammy-winning soundtrack for Don Cheadle's biopic about Miles Davis. Glasper played at the White House last year. 1" as a member of the Polyseeds, a hybrid R&B/jazz collective organized by producer and multi-instrumentalist Terrace Martin. He appears along with saxophonist Kamasi Washington on the new "The Sounds of Crenshaw Vol. Glasper is co-producing an album for Herbie Hancock, and recording songs for a solo album by Earth, Wind & Fire's Philip Bailey. He's has been a fixture on R&B and hip-hop albums since, including Kendrick Lamar's much-praised "To Pimp a Butterfly," along with scores of others including two of last year's buzziest albums, Maxwell's "blackSUMMERS'night" and Anderson Paak's "Malibu." "Black Radio" won a best R&B album Grammy in 2005.
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