Robert Glasper: Jazz is the mother of hip hop , JAZZ NIGHT IN AMERICA
Why do hiphop producers gravitate towards jazz samples by ALEX ARIFF For a mood, for sonic timbre, for a unique rhythmic component. Swing is a precursor to the boombap. If you re a hiphop producer that wants a lot of melodic stuff happening, pianist Robert Glasper says, you re probably going to go to jazz Glasper has lived in an area of overlap between jazz and hiphop for more than two decades and you can hear it in his piano playing, which often drifts into cyclical rhythms akin to a beatmaker s loops. It s all one and the same to Glasper: recasting the music of Miles Davis for an R B audience or rocking live shows with QTip; playing acoustic jazz with his trio or streamlined soul with his Grammywinning Robert Glasper Experiment. In this short doc, Glasper identifies three jazz samples, from tracks by Ahmad Jamal and Herbie Hancock, that have served as source material for famed hiphop producers J Dilla and Pete Rock. MUSIC: Ahmad Jamal Trio, I Love Music, T
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