Black Radio
Black 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 Glasper
Robert 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.
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 Dave
Chris 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.
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.
Chris Dave, the drummer who colors Robert Glasper Experiment's genre-blurring Black Radio (2012) alongside bassist Derrick Hodge, also played on 21, the 2011 album that became the era's best-selling pop blockbuster. One drummer links a jazz-soul experiment to mainstream pop's biggest record.
