After high school, Glasper moved to New York to study music at the New School.
Born and raised in Houston, pianist Robert Glasper literally grew up in jazz clubs.
Glasper has gone on to work with Nicholas Payton, Roy Hargrove, Terence Blanchard and Jeremy Pelt.
Not wanting to leave him at home with the baby sitter, Glasper's mother brought him along.
But Glasper doesn't consider the lack of a musical label to be a problem.
Glasper's two Blue Note releases, 2005's Canvas and 2007's In My Element, have both received glowing reviews.
"Anything you can think of, she sung it and listened to it and loved it, " says Glasper.
Glasper performs regularly with his own trio, which includes Damion Reid on drums and Vincente Archer on bass.
Glasper set his iPod on the piano, and as the trio played, he fired a playlist of three important speeches.
Pianist Robert Glasper has won attention for fusing jazz ideas with hip-hop sensibilities and often producing music with rappers and neo-soul singers.
The mainstream press has taken notice, too, drawing attention to Glasper's hip-hop-inflected rhythms and his associations with artists such as Mos Def, Common, Q-Tip and Erykah Badu.
But on his newest album, In My Element, 28-year-old Glasper delivers his own brand of jazz to a generation largely composed of listeners only exposed to hip-hop.
Composer and pianist Robert Glasper has recorded with artists ranging from Roy Hargrove to Carly Simon, and he often collaborates with hip-hop stars like Mos Def and Q-Tip.
On Saturdays and Sundays, Glasper's mother performed in church.
Glasper and his mother were also active in music at their church his mother sang and played piano, and by age 12, her son had assumed some of the piano duties.
This year, variety was the theme: The six pianists who took the stage Eldar, Robert Glasper, Patricia Barber, Joe Sample, Ramsey Lewis and Dr. Billy Taylor ranged in age from 22 to 88.
He is also known to play small club dates in New York as a part of The Robert Glasper Experiment, in which he further explores the intersection of hip-hop and jazz, with some neo-soul and funk thrown in.
Glasper confessed to Marian McPartland a childhood dream of playing basketball in the NBA. Despite his more than adequate height for such a career, Glasper's immersion in jazz and an acceptance into Houston's High School for Performing Arts set him on the path toward a career at the piano.
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