Robert Glasper: “Jazz is the mother of hip-hop” | JAZZ NIGHT IN AMERICA
Why do hip-hop producers gravitate towards jazz samples?
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by ALEX ARIFF
For a mood, for sonic timbre, for a unique rhythmic component. Swing is a precursor to the boom-bap. “If you’re a hip-hop producer that wants a lot of melodic stuff happening,” pianist Robert Glasper says, “you’re probably going to go to jazz first.”
Glasper has lived in an area of overlap between jazz and hip-hop for more than two decades — and you can hear it in his piano playing, which often drifts into cyclical rhythms akin to a beat-maker’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 Q-Tip; playing acoustic jazz with his trio or streamlined soul with his Grammy-winning 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 hip-hop producers J Dilla and Pete Rock.
MUSIC:
Ahmad Jamal Trio, “I Love Music,” The Awakening (1970)
Nas, “The World Is Yours,” Illmatic (1994)
Herbie Hancock, “Come Running To Me,” Sunlight (1978)
Slum Village, “Get This Money,” Fantastic, Vol. 2 (2000)
Ahmad Jamal, “Swahililand,” Jamal Plays Jamal (1974)
De La Soul “Stakes Is High,” Stakes Is High (1996)
*Correction to the video: Slum Village’s album Fantastic, Vol. 2 was released in 2000, not 2009.
Ah, just reading through the title…it reminds me of the time when Roy Hagrove, one of the greatest jazz musicians in our generation, once pioneered in combining the role of jazz in the modern hip-hop scene. It kickstarted my love for jazz and finding different ways of combining other genres, really.
Jazz is also the mother of heavy metal. Musicians wanted to play fast music, like old jazz. Old school metal drummers were in jazz groups before. But H took control of the tempo. And forced metal to be born.
Jazz meeting the hip hop is like mother and daughter having tea time. Two beautiful people talking about the small things in life that overall weave a wonderful story.
I agree. Jazz is the mother of hip-hop. Sadly though, there isn't much of a family resemblance and in the battle of nurture vs nature, nature seems to have largely struggled on by itself as the benefits of nurture are largely absent. But I understand and agree with the political stance, one that hip-hop definitely shares with several important genre's of the music of Americans of African heritage.
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I love how this begins with one of the most beautiful clips ever used in classic hip hop.
What's the progression he plays at 2:54? I can only make out Fmin11 and C#major9
More! Make more of these!
Ah, just reading through the title…it reminds me of the time when Roy Hagrove, one of the greatest jazz musicians in our generation, once pioneered in combining the role of jazz in the modern hip-hop scene.
It kickstarted my love for jazz and finding different ways of combining other genres, really.
The first song of Ahmad Jamal actually have been sampled by Artel Carter in the song "Feel dat"
I love jazz but I can't stand hip hop.
Why plagiarism is ok?
You cant say it like that , black culture is the mother of hip hop
Nice!!!
https://youtu.be/hHpNKewBlz8
Jazz is indeed the mother. Hip-Hop would have many fathers
Jazz is also the mother of heavy metal. Musicians wanted to play fast music, like old jazz.
Old school metal drummers were in jazz groups before.
But H took control of the tempo.
And forced metal to be born.
Really beautiful.
Thank you…
Hip Hop has many parents. Hip Hop descended from Jazz, Soul, Blues and Funk.
Robert Glasper truly has a way with words
Rip dilla ♥️
Jazz meeting the hip hop is like mother and daughter having tea time. Two beautiful people talking about the small things in life that overall weave a wonderful story.
Robert Glasper speaks directly to my soul, cant explain it <3
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Just remember, Peter Rabbit was the inventor of hip hop.
I agree. Jazz is the mother of hip-hop. Sadly though, there isn't much of a family resemblance and in the battle of nurture vs nature, nature seems to have largely struggled on by itself as the benefits of nurture are largely absent. But I understand and agree with the political stance, one that hip-hop definitely shares with several important genre's of the music of Americans of African heritage.
J dilla
I’m sure someone mentioned it but Fantastic Vol.2 came out around 1999-2000 I think, not 2009.
391. Don't like. Do not like. Music. So who. Cares
Yeah Hip hop sems to be the son of Jazz BECAUSE ONLY HIP HOPERS COULD STEAL FROM THEIR MOTHERS
beautiful
Nujabes love this
Ahora entiendo la parte teórica del porqué Canserbero cantaba sobre la base de un piano en "Tiempos de Cambio"
I think it was disco and boogie
sebajun..
I used to think that until I started to listen to funk
Disco is the father of hip-hop then
1:08 Steven Wilson wants to know your location
i like his T-shirt even i love those music