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Hailing from Houston, Tx, Robert Glasper is really a jazz pianist using a knack for mellow, harmonically organic compositions that also reveal a subtle hip-hop impact. Inspired to try out piano by his mom, a gospel pianist and vocalist, Glasper went to Houston’s SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL for the Performing Arts. …

A quartet centered around jazz pianist Robert Glasper, the Robert Glasper Test originally featured bassist Derrick Hodge, drummer Chris Dave (from your pianist’s acoustic trio), and Casey Benjamin on saxes and vocoder. They produced their debut using one fifty percent of Glasper’s two-disc Two times Booked for Blue Notice in …