Robert Glasper - Code Derivation (2024) [Official Digital Download]

Today five-time Grammy award-winning pianist and composer Robert Glasper releases his second project of 2024, the Apple Music exclusive Code Derivation. On his latest album, Glasper splits the difference between jazz and hip-hop, emphasizing their shared genetics. Code Derivation is largely comprised of two versions of the same track, one played live in studio by Glasper’s band and a version “flipped” by a producer of his choosing.

“Jazz is literally in the beginning-bones of hip hop,” Glasper tells Apple Music. “That’s why I even used the word derivation, because it’s a derivative of jazz. I’ve played with the masters of both of these genres so I wanted to do a project where it’s like, ‘Hey, I’m going to do jazz songs that I wrote with my band—with my friends—and I’m going to get dope producers that are my friends to sample me.’”

On the band side of things, that includes names like Walter Smith III, Mike Moreno, Kendrick Scott, Vicente Archer and Keyon Harrold, with an additional feature from Marcus Strickland. On the production side, Glasper has called on some of his likewise favorite friends and collaborators, people like Hi-Tek, Black Milk, Taylor McFerrin, Kareem Riggins, and the one guest Glasper would be hard pressed to deny as his favorite of the bunch, his son Riley. On the MC front, Glasper’s called on acts like Beaumont, Texas-hailing Jamari (a frequent collaborator of his son), Minneapolis’ MMYYKK, and Brooklyn-born Oswin Benjamin, young rhymers who Glasper says became the project’s pièce de résistance.

TRACKLIST

1. Robert Glasper - Soundcheck One
2. Robert Glasper - Say Less
3. Robert Glasper - Say Less (feat. Jamari) [Flipped by Riley Glasper]
4. Robert Glasper - Wake Up
5. Robert Glasper - Wake Up (feat. MMYYKK) [Flipped by MMYYKK]
6. Robert Glasper - Madiba
7. Robert Glasper - Madiba (feat. Oswin Benjamin) [Flipped by Hi-Tek]
8. Robert Glasper - AJ’s Vibe
9. Robert Glasper - AJ’s Vibe (Flipped by Black Milk)
10. Robert Glasper - Waiting on Arrival
11. Robert Glasper - Waiting on Arrival (feat. Taylor McFerrin) [Flipped by Taylor McFerrin]
12. Robert Glasper - Rm 112
13. Robert Glasper - Rm 112 (Flipped by Karriem Riggins)
14. Robert Glasper - Soundcheck Two
15. Robert Glasper - M&M March (Flipped by Riley Glasper)



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