INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz That Dwells in the Present

If you're the kind of fan who likes his music in little boxes—jazz in one, funk in another, hip-hop rhythms stashed somewhere else—"Double Booked" (Blue Note) by Robert Glasper and "Urbanus" by Stefon Harris and his band Blackout may not be for you. For Mr. Glasper, age 32, and Mr. Harris, 36, jazz isn't defined by an arcane set of rules. Nor is it defined solely by its past. To them, the question of whether jazz is dead, dying or thriving in some alternate form is mostly irrelevant...

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