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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Kenny Kirkland

Kenny Kirkland · 1991

Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis · 1982

Black Codes (From the Underground)

Wynton Marsalis · 1985

BOB A Palindrome

Robert Hurst · 2013

In 1982, when Wynton asked his brother Branford who he knew for a new band, the answer was: call Kenny Kirkland, and put Jeff "Tain" Watts on drums. Watts was an unknown Berklee student at the time; that single recommendation set the entire rhythm section of Wynton's 1980s quartet and put both men on the map.

— Statement stmt-branford-marsalis-on-kenny-kirkland