MUSIC

Robert Glasper

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2022
7:00 PM

Blue Note Jazz Festival
Washington Square Park, Greenwich Village, Manhattan

Free
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Thirty years ago, Robert Glasper was just an up-and-coming jazz pianist. Then he realized he didn’t have to maintain a wall of separation between the hip-hop he loved and the mainstream jazz he revered: hip-hop was only the latest expression of the jazz-and-blues efflorescence that started around the turn of the 20th Century anyway. So now he’s not only an excellent jazz pianist but an influential pioneer — and great to listen to to boot. (If you feel like paying a lot of money to listen to Glasper in a bougie overcrowded jazz club, he’ll be playing at the Blue Note Thursday.)

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Possibly bullshit — we’ll have to try it to see (LET ME KNOW) — New Israeli at Shmoné.