Robert Glasper Trio review – an enthralling performance by a contemporary master

Ronnie Scott’s, London
Glasper is both a disciplined virtuoso and a freethinking, genre-bending pianist to rival Herbie Hancock and Thelonius MonkThe 37-year-old Texan piano star Robert Glasper seems to melt the discrete notes of a keyboard into a seamless stream, and transform the sound of every piano he plays. A jazz virtuoso who cannily disguises it, a hip-hop artist who rarely hits anything hard and an improviser with a classical pianist’s care for the weighting of every sound, G