Billboard Live OSAKA, Osaka

Three-time-Grammy-winning American singer, pianist, and record producer Robert Glasper brings his unique style of jazz hip-hop to Japan, along with DJ Jahi Sundance. Hailed as a pioneer in this jazz alternative genre, the keyboardist has earned rave reviews from the likes of Rolling Stone magazine: “Robert Glasper heads down the fraught path of hip-hop jazz and gets it right… it feels like a blueprint forward.”
Glasper is joined in his trio by the highly sought after New York bassist Vicente Archer, and US drummer Damian Reid, a musician who it is claimed plays with a ‘controlled fury.’
Earlier this year, Glasper teamed up with other musical friends to put out the album {R+R=NOW}. Glasper says this album tells “our story from our point of view. Everybody’s sound is so different, but we all come from the same concrete garden. It’s a very honest, fluid sound that rings of hip-hop, EDM, jazz, at times – hell – reggae … a bunch of cats that respect each other so much that we always pass the ball.”

US jazz hip-hop keyboardist