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For Granted by Dinner Party featuring Arin Ray - Director: Alexander Zeke Musca

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Robert Glasper ft. Killa Mike, BJ the Chicago Kid and Big K.R.I.T. - Black Superhero

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Last night we got to see Robert Glasper's early show at the Dakota. He's here for a 6 show run over three days. Our musician friend John and his wife Penny sat in the booth with us and the seats were great.

He had what he called his OG Acoustic Trio with him plus a DJ: Glasper was on a grand piano. Vicente Archer was on double bass, Damion Reid on drums, and Jahi Sundance as. the DJ.

Amazing set. Kind of otherworldly where, if you let it happen, you can just completely lose yourself in the music. This is the fourth time we've seen him perform and this was new territory from his earlier recordings. Less DJ work (the DJ was doing a lot of atmospheric work and really emotional bits of other artists speaking: Nina Simone, David Bowie, etc.)

On the piano, as opposed to previous shows where he was on synths, you could hear really distinctive references to other keyboard players: Herbie Hancock for sure, Ahmad Jamal, Vince Guaraldi, and probably others I'm less familiar with.

A couple of interesting (to me) nuggets: First time I've ever witnessed a drum solo with brushes and I couldn't believe how moving that was. One of the bass lines was very similar to the bass line in Rush's Tom Sawyer which was wild.

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Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus, Dies at 95

- “He set the standard of musicianship so high,” Flea says

Sonny Rollins, known as the Saxophone Colossus since the release of his 1956 album of the same name, died May 25 at 95.

His death was announced in a statement that didn’t give a cause and concluded with a 2009 quote from Rollins:

“I think when the creative person ends, he continues in the next existence. I’m a person who believes this life isn’t the be-all and end-all of everything. A spiritual person doesn’t feel like that.”

“Now, he is everywhere,” Dave Matthews Band sax man Jeff Coffin said.

Rollins was the last living veteran of the first Monterey Jazz Festival, an event he played seven times between 1958 and 2011 and “at each show, he was at the height of his powers,” festival organizers said in a statement.

“It was mesmerizing, emotional and awe-inspiring for several generations of Monterey Jazz staff and jazz fans to see and hear him play over that 53-year period,” they said. “It was like hearing the evolution of life, and jazz itself.”

“Thank you,” Robert Glasper said to the man he eulogized as the “master teacher.”

The Colossus was “one of the greatest improvisers that ever lived,” Danilo Perez said in a statement.

“Sonny Rollins gave us more than music, he gave us courage, soul and fearless sense of freedom in every solo he ever played,” he said. “Thank you for the decades of fearless creativity and transcendence.”

Rollins began his career as a sideman in 1949, released the first of nearly 50 solo albums in 1953 and continued to make music into the 2010s with a couple of hiatuses to reassess and readjust his style.

“The fact that this verifiable genius stepped away from the scene during high points of his career because he felt that his playing needed significant improvement never ceases to amaze and humble me,” saxophonist Chris Greene said.

“We have lost a musical giant,” Trey Hensley said of Rollins.

“He set the standard of musicianship so high, me and so many like me will be reaching for it all our lives,” Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist who’s just released a solo jazz LP, said.

“The integrity, the power, the fearlessness and the spirituality. My God, thank you so much for your gifts, Sonny.”

5/27/26

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Esperanza Spalding & Robert Glasper - Watermelon Man (Herbie Hancock) 2025 - with Herbie in the audience as a Polar Prize honoree

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Robert Glasper & Yasiin Bey 'Mos Def' - Lovely Day | Live at A Vaulx Jazz