Born in Houston, Texas on April 5, 1978, pianist, composer and producer Robert Glasper’s earliest musical influence was his mother, Kim Yvette Glasper, who sang jazz and blues professionally. She took her son with her to club dates rather than leave him with babysitters. She was the music director at the East Wind Baptist Church, where Glasper first performed in public. Glasper has said that he first developed his sound in church, where he learned his own way to hear harmony and was inspired to mix church and gospel harmonies with those of jazz.

Glasper attended the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City and started touring as a sideman with Christian McBride, Roy Hargrove and Terence Blanchard while still a student. Glasper released his first album in 2002 and signed with the Blue Note label in 2005 and has released 13 albums since that time, seven of them with Blue Note.

In 2012 Glasper released his fifth and seminal album “Black Radio” which was met with both commercial success and critical acclaim. In October 2018, Glasper launched the first of what would become his annual month-long residencies at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City. Each year, in the course of playing 56 sold-out shows across 30 days, Glasper curates a unique program— a testimony to the breadth of his portfolio, vision and bandmates—and draws the great and the good of his creative community to the shows on and off stage.

Here is a link to Glasper playing at Capitol Studios:

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