Hints and tips:
...Robert Glasper, Christian Scott and Theo Croker are frequent visitors to the UK, Charlie Hunter and Marcus Strickland less so, and full-house club dates reflected a music in tune with the times....
...A friend at the French Cultural Centre library copied other jazz recordings for him and soon he was copying the likes of Montgomery, Charlie Christian and Grant Green note for note....
...Today’s crossover front-runners have market-friendly keyboard skills or vocal talent and, like Robert Glasper and Esperanza Spalding, reference hip-hop, dance and left-field pop....
...There, Glasper met professionals who taught from experience rather than the curriculum. Some of them had even played with Charlie Parker. “It’s not contrived teaching,” said Glasper....
...Grand masters such as Keith Jarrett are on top form, Craig Taborn and Matthew Shipp are giving the avant garde a funky edge, and at the recent London Jazz Festival new-generation pianists like Robert Glasper...
...Now it’s Scott who’s a serious dude, forging, along with pianist Robert Glasper, a credible jazz/hip-hop alliance with a trumpet sound that was three years in the crafting....
...Like his contemporaries, the American Robert Glasper and the British Tom Cawley, he spins micro-variations out of a few looped, densely voiced chords or a repeated rhythmic motif....
...A growing list lauds both the obvious – Satchmo and Charlie Parker, for example – and the less familiar – Charlie Christian and Clifford Brown....
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