Double Booked

Robert Glasper | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 25, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blue Note Records
• ASIN: B002GSO3M0
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,883 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. No Worries

2. Yes I'm Country (And That's OK)

3. Downtime

4. 59 South

5. Think of One

6. 4eva

7. Butterfly

8. Festival

9. For You

10. All Matter

11. Open Mind

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic jazz piano voice for the future, September 16, 2009

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Jonathan Guarriello (Rutherfordton NC) - See all my reviews
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I recently purchased Robert Glasper's newest album Double Booked pretty much on a whim. I had never heard his music or really heard of him aside from his name mentioned here & there in Jazztimes magazine. Well let me tell you I was more than happy that I had picked this up, within an hour that same day I picked up Glaspers previous Blue Note cd In My Element and downloaded his live 2nd set from bonnaroo 2007. Each album was great. Anyway Double Booked is actually two facets of Glasper's music. The first half of the album is an acoustic piano jazz trio with Vicente Archer on acoustic bass & Chris Dave on drums and the second half is what Robert calls The Robert Glasper Experiment with ?uestlove from the Roots at the drums and as creative counterpart,this music is more electrified and features vocals by Bilal and rapper Mos Def. It features sax man Casey Benjamin who also works with Stefon Harris & Blackout. On electric bass Derrick Hodge steps in replacing Archer. The music is a hybrid of experimental hip hop & acoustic jazz that draws on studio production techniques to great effect. They do a original take on Herbie Hancock's Butterfly featuring vocoder vocals & a different arrangment than usual. I personally fell that the experiment is cool but still in the experimental phase trying to soildifie their sound and falls alittle short overall compositionally. I prefer the trio half of the disc. Glasper has had much more time in this area to prefect his methods & approach to the jazz piano trio. He's hard to put a label on soundwise its definitely jazz but with R&B and pop overtones that are subtle enough to invite the listener and make the music that much more accessible. Fans of this album be sure to delve into Glasper's back log of albums on Blue Note his 1st Canvas & In My Element are great. Also the Bonnaroo live set is awesome! The trio mates are killing Chris Dave is a great drummer with a original sound & feel. Vicente Archer is a soild groove meister offering rock soild support. Check out these fantastic young jazzers.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best of bold worlds, May 23, 2010

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Glasper continues to prove a singular voice in the field, perhaps dabbling too heavily into the realms of auto-tuned hip-hop influence for some lately, but certainly churning consistently conscious creativity as a result.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jazz Guru, November 23, 2009

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N. Wallace (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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I saw the Robert Glasper Trio live in New York, which intrigued me to purchase the CD. This man is truly amazing. This is classic jazz. I'm sure that John Coltrane is looking down on him and smiling.