Collagically Speaking R+R Now

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Album-Release:
2018

HRA-Release:
15.06.2018

Label: Blue Note Records

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz

Artist: R+R Now

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  • 1Change Of Tone07:32
  • 2Awake To You08:14
  • 3By Design05:27
  • 4Resting Warrior09:51
  • 5Needed You Still06:09
  • 6Colors In The Dark04:48
  • 7The Night In Question07:41
  • 8Reflect Reprise06:42
  • 9HER NOW06:44
  • 10Respond05:21
  • 11Been On My Mind04:49
  • Total Runtime01:13:18

Info for Collagically Speaking

Für ein neues All-Star-Projekt finden sich Robert Glasper und Terrace Martin mit Derrick Hodge, Justin Tyson, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah und Taylor McFerrin zusammen.

Die texanische Metropole Houston war auf der Landkarte des Jazz lange Zeit ein ziemlich blinder Fleck, von dem keine nennenswerten Impulse für die Szene ausgingen. Dann begannen kurz nach der Jahrtausendwende plötzlich immer mehr Jazzkünstler aus Houston Schlagzeilen zu machen: darunter Keyboarder Jason Moran, Saxophonist Walter Smith III, Gitarrist Mike Moreno, die Schlagzeuger Eric Harland, Kendrick Scott und Chris Dave sowie natürlich der heute fast schon omnipräsente Robert Glasper.

Sie alle verhalfen dem Jazz mit kühnen Crossover-Ideen, appetitlichen Grooves und anderen frischen Ansätzen zu einem neuen, jüngeren Publikum. Eine ähnliche Revolution spielte sich fast zur selben Zeit rund 2.200 km Luftlinie weiter nordwestlich auch in Los Angeles ab, von wo aus der Saxophonist Kamasi Washington, die Bassisten Miles Mosley und Thundercat sowie der Multiinstrumentalist Terrace Martin musikalische Schockwellen um den Erdball sandten. Für das vielversprechende neue Projekt "R+R=NOW", das gerade am ersten Album arbeitet, taten sich nun zwei der kreativsten Köpfe dieser beiden Szenen zusammen: Robert Glasper und Terrace Martin.

Die Wege der beiden Crossover-Größen hatten sich in der jüngeren Vergangenheit schon öfter gekreuzt: etwa 2013 auf Glaspers "Black Radio 2", für das sie zusammen die Nummer "Persevere" produzierten, oder auf Kendrick Lamars 2015 erschienenem Album "To Pimp A Butterfly" (an dem Martin als Altsaxophonist, Keyboarder und Produzent mitwirkte, während Glasper zu einigen Tracks Klavier und Keyboards beisteuerte) und schließlich letztes Jahr bei Martins gefeiertem eigenen "Pollyseeds"-Projekt, das wiederum Glasper als Gast featurete. Daher war es wohl nur eine Frage der Zeit, wann die beiden endlich so richtig gemeinsame Sache machen würden. Dazu kommt es nun in dem frisch aus der Taufe gehobenen Projekt "R+R=NOW", bei dem das Kürzel "R+R" für "Reflect + Respond" steht, also "Reflektieren + Reagieren".

Zum Kern der Band gehören neben Glasper und Martin noch Derrick Hodge, der langjährige Bassist des Robert Glasper Experiment, und der druckvolle Schlagzeuger Justin Tyson, den man zuletzt u.a. auf Esperanza Spaldings "Emily’s D+Evolution" hören konnte. Verstärkt wird das Quartett außerdem durch den aus New Orleans stammenden innovativen Trompeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah sowie den DJ, Rapper und Beatboxer Taylor McFerrin, der der Sohn des Vokalakrobaten Bobby McFerrin ist. "R+R=NOW erzählt unsere Geschichte von unserem Standpunkt aus", meint Glasper über das Projekt. "Jeder von uns hat seinen eigenen Sound, aber wir kommen alle aus demselben Betongarten. Es ist ein sehr ehrlicher, fließender Sound, in dem Hip-Hop, EDM, Jazz und manchmal, verdammt, sogar Reggae widerhallt. Wir sind eine Gruppe von Typen, die sich gegenseitig so sehr respektieren, dass wir uns immer wieder den Ball zuspielen."

Wann genau mit dem fertigen Album zu rechnen ist, steht noch nicht fest. Zuvor wird Glasper im März 2018 erst noch eine EP mit Remixen herausbringen, die der kanadische HipHop-DJ und Produzent Kaytranada von Tracks des letzten Robert-Glasper-Experiment-Albums "ArtScience" gefertigt hat.

Robert Glasper, keyboards
Terrace Martin, synthesizer, vocoder, saxophone
Christian Scott Stunde ad Juah, trumpet
Derrick Hodge, double bass
Taylor McFerrin, synthesizer, beatbox
Justin Tyson, drums
Terry Crews, spoken words
Amanda Seales, spoken words
Amber Navran, vocals




R+R=NOW & Robert Glasper
Robert Glasper. Terrace Martin. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah. Derrick Hodge. Justin Tyson. Taylor McFerrin...this new project brings together the seminal voices of Robert Glasper's generation with a shared mission: to create music of and for its time. Robert Glasper is a game-changer. So are his friends. In 2018 you can hear what happens when the best of the best come together on one stage with one purpose.

In Robert's words “when you can respond to something, and you can reflect something – that's the essence of a moment; of now, and that's what all these cats do, just intuitively. It's why I love them, why they're who they are - and why we're called R+R=NOW”.

Inspired by Nina Simone's conviction that “an artist's job is to reflect the times”, Robert asks “how could we do anything else, right now?!” It is, then, as much his integrity as his artistry that compelled him to found this band at this time. R+R=NOW (Reflect + Respond =Now) is a collective of six of the most potent and outspoken artists of our generation, brought together by Robert Glasper to reflect a community that has built some of the definitive musical movements of the last decade, and respond to the socio-political moment we find ourselves in.

The individuals of R+R=now have long been the sonic secret behind high profile and prestigious releases and artists; from Snoop Dogg and Jill Scott to Herbie Hancock and Quincy Jones. They are collectively the vanguard of a new sound, influencing and infiltrating a stellar catalogue. Each musician in R+R=now is an underground icon. From Terrace Martin's mentorship by Dr Dre and his work on To Pimp A Butterfly, to Derrick Hodge's opening solo on Common's Be album and musical direction of Nas' Illimatic Orchestral tour. They are the musicians of our era.

Together they are at the edge of genre, each unmistakable voice creating unique spaces, sounds and revelry at every show. The hip-hop-head-nod is their anthem, but so too is a message: the beauty and brilliance of a jazz heritage that is as much Kendrick as it is Coltrane: “This is our story from our point of view. Everybody's sound is so different, but we all come from the same concrete garden. Its a very honest, fluid sound that rings of hip-hop, EDM, jazz, at times - hell - reggae... a bunch of cats that respect each other so much that we always pass the ball...” [Robert Glasper]

Long time collaborators and friends, individually acclaimed as pioneers, virtuosos and visionaries, they have united for a one-time tour to explore new horizons of perspective and of music; seeking new art and new truth.

On the frontline, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah [trumpet] is a firebrand. An Afro-Native American chieftain, his sound is at once Trap and tribal, Jazz and Dancehall: a collision of ideas and identities, which is ever-challenging and ever-disruptive, and speaks to an innate human potential with every note. Alongside him, Terrace Martin [saxophone, vocoder, keys] is a hip-hop legend with a jazz soul. Regular producer for legends Quincy Jones and Herbie Hancock, Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa and Top Dawg Entertainment (Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q), as well as a close collaborator of YG. He is where musicality meets brotherhood: driven by the moniker to “find beauty in every problem” his sound is the triumph of art over hardship, love over hate.

In the rhythm section, Taylor McFerrin [keys and electronics] is a beatmaker, beatboxer, DJ, keyboardist and producer who traces a vintage flavour through a hip-hop lineage, playing with part-analogue, part electronic soundscapes. Justin Tyson [drums] combines the ghetto with the intellectual with his uncompromising, raw power and deeply philosophical approach, whilst Derrick Hodge [bass] is the heartbeat of this sonic landscape, laying an impossibly perfect groove at the root of it all. At the heart of this musical community, Robert Glasper [keys, rhodes] is revered and respected in equal measure by icons across era and genre: from Herbie and Stevie to Syd and Mos Def. Irrepressible and irreverent, hilarious and profound, Robert's touch – and his spirit - underpins a musical movement.



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