Mark Colenburg

Canvas

Robert Glasper · 2005

Black Radio

Robert Glasper Experiment · 2012

Black Radio 2

Robert Glasper Experiment · 2013

Exposure

Esperanza Spalding · 2017

Chris Dave, the drummer on Robert Glasper's genre-bending Black Radio (2012), also plays on 21 (2011), one of the best-selling pop albums of the 2010s — the same hands linking a neo-soul jazz session to a stadium-scale pop blockbuster.

Black Radio

Robert Glasper Experiment · 2012

Heaven and Earth

Kamasi Washington · 2018

Live Today

Derrick Hodge · 2013

Black Messiah

D'Angelo and The Vanguard · 2014

Chris DaveChris Daveクリス・デイヴ appears on 16 albums — Black RadioBlack RadioRobert Glasper Experiment · 2012, Heaven and EarthHeaven and EarthKamasi Washington · 2018, Black MessiahBlack MessiahD'Angelo and The Vanguard · 2014. The drummer called to every genre-crossing session.

The Mugician

Keyon Harrold · 2017

Drunk

Thundercat · 2017

Gray Area

Terrace Martin · 2015

Velvet Portraits

Terrace Martin · 2016

Terrace Martin trained as a jazz saxophonist, but in 2015 he helped shape the sound of a landmark hip-hop album, To Pimp a Butterfly. Around the same time he was quietly releasing straight jazz records like Velvet Portraits and Gray Area under his own name, moving between the two worlds with the same hands.