Robert Glasper - Canvas -2002- Flac -

Turn off the lights. Put on the good headphones. Find that FLAC file. And listen to the future of jazz before it knew it was the future.

That brings us to .

The album opens with a meditative, rubato introduction that slowly locks into a ¾ waltz. In MP3, the cymbals of Damion Reid can sound like white noise. In FLAC, you hear the stick definition —the specific ping of the ride cymbal dancing around the piano chords. The low end of Vicente Archer’s bass doesn’t just rumble; it sings with woody resonance. Robert Glasper - Canvas -2002- flac

For many listeners, the name Robert Glasper immediately conjures images of the Grammy-winning, genre-shattering collective Robert Glasper Experiment or the hip-hop head-nod of Black Radio . We think of him as the connective tissue between Herbie Hancock and J Dilla. But before the electric keys, the Auto-Tune, and the Yasiin Bey features, there was a 24-year-old prodigy from Houston sitting behind an acoustic grand piano. Turn off the lights

There are albums that teach you how to listen to jazz, and then there are albums that remind you why you fell in love with music in the first place. And listen to the future of jazz before