Glasper, Robert Canvas
2005 Album / Blue Note Debuts On 180gr. Vinyl
2-LP Holland
Jazz
- THE PIANIST’S ACCLAIMED, AMBITIOUS BLUE NOTE DEBUT
- RECORDED AT BROOKLYN’S SYSTEMS TWO STUDIOS DURING MAY 2005
- FEATURING VICENTE ARCHER (BASS) AND DAMON REID (DRUMS), PLUS SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCES FROM MARK TURNER (TENOR SAX) ON TWO TRACKS AND BILAL (VOCALS) ON ‘CHANT’
- FEATURES NINE ORIGINAL GLASPER COMPOSITIONS PLUS A FAMOUS COVER VERSION OF HERBIE HANCOCK’S ‘RIOT’ (WHICH ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON MILES DAVIS’S NEFERTITI ALBUM)
- ROOTED IN ACOUSTIC JAZZ BUT WITH FASCINATING GLIMPSES OF GLASPER’S BLUE NOTE FUTURE WITH ITS JITTERY, HIP-HOP-INFLUENCED GROOVES AND ROLLING CHORD SEQUENCES