Robert Glasper Experiment brings jazz fusion to Wright Museum

While there is no single answer to the question of what's happening in jazz right now, the Robert Glasper Experiment is a pretty good place to start. At 33, Glasper, a Houston-born pianist, marries the sophisticated melodic-harmonic language and improvisatory acumen of post-bop heroes like Herbie Hancock with the pulsating grooves of hip-hop and R&B. There's traditional swing in his vocabulary too, but the Robert Glasper Experiment is more concerned with a grand synthesis in which jazz...

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