American - Musician | April 5, 1978 -
You have to go with the times. You're going to get left behind if you don't.
Robert Glasper
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For a while, R&B was going out of style. It was kind of getting kicked to the side. The first year the R&B Album of the Year didn't get on the TV portion of the Grammys is when I got nominated.
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I always tell people that, just to be a bad jazz musician, you have to be better than most musicians. The worst jazz musicians are normally better than most musicians, because you have to know so much.
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I'm from the gospel world. I grew up playing in church.
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'Black Radio' was pretty much a jam session.
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Honestly, recording with Faith Evans blew me away.
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You can see how different artists work, from writing to recording, just from being in the studio environment with them.
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I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or, 'What you're doing isn't jazz,' are just scared because they can't do it. A lot of them just aren't talented enough to do anything new, honestly.
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Around 2009, my audience started getting a lot more mainstream - younger people, R&B and hip-hop fans mixed in with the jazz audience.
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When my friends were listening to hip-hop or R&B, I was in the crib listening to Billy Joel and Michael Bolton, Luther Vandross, and Oscar Peterson.
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A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?
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I was playing drums in church when I was six. Then I picked up the piano when I was 11 or 12.
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