Black Radio

Black RadioBlack RadioRobert Glasper Experiment · 2012 (2012) dissolved the boundaries between jazz, hip-hop, and R&B. Featuring Erykah Badu, Mos Def, and Lupe Fiasco, it was a definitive answer to the question of how to bring jazz to people outside jazz. Robert GlasperRobert Glasperロバート・グラスパー's band kept deepening that direction.

Black RadioBlack RadioRobert Glasper Experiment · 2012 (2012) brought hip-hop and R&B fully into jazz on Robert GlasperRobert Glasperロバート・グラスパー's terms, winning the Grammy for Best R&B Album. With Erykah Badu, Mos Def, and Bilal as guests, it physically expanded jazz's boundary.

The suspended left-hand voicings Robert GlasperRobert Glasperロバート・グラスパー places on the Fender Rhodes are the harmonic fingerprint running through Black RadioBlack RadioRobert Glasper Experiment · 2012. On the Erykah Badu reading of "Afro Blue," he shifts Mongo Santamaria's 3/4 into 4/4 and restacks the chords upward, dissolving the tune into neo-soul texture.

Chris DaveChris Daveクリス・デイヴ played drums on three Grammy-winning albums: Maxwell's BLACKsummers'night (2009, Best R&B Album), four Rick Rubin–produced tracks on Adele's 21 (2011, Best Pop Vocal Album), and Robert GlasperRobert Glasperロバート・グラスパー's Black RadioBlack RadioRobert Glasper Experiment · 2012 (2012, Best R&B Album). A session drummer spanning R&B and pop Grammys.

Robert GlasperRobert Glasperロバート・グラスパー Experiment's Black Radio (2012, Grammy Best R&B Album) was recorded in just five days in LA. All instrumental tracks were cut live in a single take. Chris DaveChris Daveクリス・デイヴ's hip-hop-inflected grooves fused with jazz improvisation, backing vocals from Erykah Badu, Bilal, and Lupe Fiasco.