Robert Glasper

Black Radio

Robert Glasper Experiment · 2012

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.

The 2014 Tiny Desk — the canonical Robert GlasperRobert Glasperロバート・グラスパー Experiment lineup. Casey BenjaminCasey Benjaminケイシー・ベンジャミン's vocoder and sax, Derrick HodgeDerrick Hodgeデリック・ホッジ's bass, Mark ColenburgMark Colenburgマーク・コレンバーグ's drums, all dissolving the lines between jazz, neo-soul, and hip-hop.

— NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert, 2014

Black Radio

Robert Glasper Experiment · 2012

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.

— Black Radio (Robert Glasper Experiment album), Wikipedia, 2024

Black Radio

Robert Glasper Experiment · 2012

BLACKsummers'night

Maxwell · 2009

21

Adele · 2011

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.

— Chris Dave: The Most Important Drummer You've Never Heard Of

The Epic

Kamasi Washington · 2015

Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly (2015) was built on jazz musicians: Robert GlasperRobert Glasperロバート・グラスパー, Terrace MartinTerrace Martinテラス・マーティン, Kamasi WashingtonKamasi Washingtonカマシ・ワシントン, and ThundercatThundercatサンダーキャット. Glasper was supposed to play on one track, but Kendrick kept queuing up songs — he ended up recording nine in a single sitting with no sheet music. The piano solo on "These Walls" was actually his warmup, secretly recorded by Terrace Martin.

— Robert Glasper on Playing Jazz Piano on To Pimp a Butterfly, Slate, 2015

Black Radio

Robert Glasper Experiment · 2012

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.

— NPR: Robert Glasper Experiment

Drones

Terrace Martin · 2021

The musicians on DronesDronesTerrace Martin · 2021 (2021) form the core of post-2010s jazz across LA and Chicago. Where Brainfeeder-adjacent production instincts meet collective improvisation — this is one of the defining sites of where jazz moved next.

About 30 minutes of full performance recorded at the KEXP Bumbershoot Music Lounge — three tracks stretched in their signature jazz/hip-hop/R&B blend.

— Live Video: Robert Glasper Experiment @ Bumbershoot Music Lounge, KEXP, 2013

Performing 'Over' from Black City Radio III with YEBBA.

— Robert Glasper - Black Radio III (album), Wikipedia, 2022

Highlights from House of Robert GlasperRobert Glasperロバート・グラスパー.

— Instagram Reel (@robertglasper), 2024

Canvas

Robert Glasper · 2005

CanvasCanvasRobert Glasper · 2005 (2005) was Robert GlasperRobert Glasperロバート・グラスパー's first Blue Note album. Though a straight-ahead trio record, it already contains the seeds of bringing the hip-hop generation's sensibility into jazz.

— Canvas (Robert Glasper album), Wikipedia, 2024

Black Radio

Robert Glasper Experiment · 2012

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.

— Robert Glasper: Black Radio at 10, JAZZIZ, 2022

Dinner Party formed in 2020 as a quartet of Terrace MartinTerrace Martinテラス・マーティン, Robert GlasperRobert Glasperロバート・グラスパー, Kamasi WashingtonKamasi Washingtonカマシ・ワシントン, and 9th Wonder. In JAZZIZ, Robert GlasperRobert Glasperロバート・グラスパー described it as "the next step," dissolving the Black Radio concept into a collective form.

— Robert Glasper: Black Radio at 10, JAZZIZ, 2022

Keyon HarroldKeyon Harroldキーヨン・ハロルド's The Mugician was written in response to the post-Ferguson United States, with guest spots from Robert GlasperRobert Glasperロバート・グラスパー and Bilal. The album's title stitches "magician" and "musician" into a single coined word, advancing an ambition to redefine the trumpet as an instrument of ritual.

— Robert Glasper: Black Radio at 10, JAZZIZ, 2022

"If you want to bring jazz to the next generation, you have to speak in the musical language they already know."

Glasper said this in JAZZIZ on the occasion of Black Radio's 10th anniversary.