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“Real music is crash protected,” state the liner notes of Black Radio, a future landmark album by the Robert Glasper Experiment that boldly stakes out new musical territory and transcends any notion of genre, drawing from jazz, hip-hop, R&B and rock, but refusing to be pinned down by any one tag. Like an aircraft’s black box for which the album is titled, Black Radio holds the truth and is indestructible.

Robert Glasper has long kept one foot planted firmly in jazz and the other in hip-hop and R&B. He’s worked extensively with Q-Tip, playing keyboards on the rapper’s 2008 album The Renaissance and co-writing the album single “Life Is Better” which featured his label mate Norah Jones. Glasper also serves as the music director in yasiin bey’s touring band, and has toured with the multi-platinum R&B singer Maxwell.

The Los Angeles Times once wrote that “it’s a short list of jazz pianists who have the wherewithal to drop a J Dilla reference into a Thelonious Monk cover, but not many jazz pianists are Robert Glasper,” adding that “he’s equally comfortable in the worlds of hip-hop and jazz,” and praising the organic way in which he “builds a bridge between his two musical touchstones.”

Glasper drove that point home with his last album, 2009’s Double-Booked, which was split neatly in half. The first part featured his acoustic Trio, which had gathered a great deal of acclaim in the jazz world and beyond over the course of two previous Blue Note albums (2005’s Canvas and 2007’s In My Element).
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  • eadwinn

    Lift Off is soooo dope. Almost sounds like something FlyLo would make.

    12 Feb 9:07pm Reply

  • christianS_79

    Congrats on the Grammy win. Long overdue, well deserved [2]

    12 Feb 8:56am Reply

  • xolin11

    Dat award.

    11 Feb 9:42pm Reply

  • Stynon

    Congrats on the Grammy win. Long overdue, well deserved

    11 Feb 3:00pm Reply

  • TheAbbott

    Amazing, simply amazing...

    7 Feb 1:57pm Reply

  • frogjab

    with Casey Benjamin on vocoder - hell yeah, i knew it was him. adore his HEAVy 'First Sessions' LP

    31 Jan 9:39am Reply

  • unquest

    Black Radio is one of the best 2012 albums, I think.

    30 Jan 7:00pm Reply

  • frogjab

    jazzy soulful hip-hop. that's what my soul was in need of. this music makes it sings.

    30 Jan 5:19pm Reply

  • frogjab

    my god, what a find! 'black radio' is pure perfection.

    30 Jan 5:00pm Reply

  • blogmeridian

    Adventurous AND beautiful: a rare combination.

    6 Jan 1:34pm Reply

  • dukon

    this music collage of my all time fav hitsfrom Little Dragon & Crooklyn is fantastic: Twice (?uestlove's Twice Baked Remix featuring Solange Knowles & The Roots)

    18 Oct 2012 Reply

  • jdotperiod

    Wow, the Black Radio remix EP is just as good as the original album. That doesn't happen everyday!

    10 Oct 2012 Reply

  • KiDNaGi

    Black Radio Recovered: The Remix EP!!!!

    10 Oct 2012 Reply

  • Theloniusband

    Just so innovative on all fronts - best band around today

    23 Aug 2012 Reply

  • GuitaristSB

    New fan as of today, incredible music.

    24 Jun 2012 Reply

  • rasporot_sumeyu

    really like it)

    14 Jun 2012 Reply

  • christianS_79

    Great LP. And it's nice to see that you can still have some sells with good music like this.

    2 Jun 2012 Reply

  • sweattshop

    COOOOOOOL!!! MAGNIFIC!!!!

    26 May 2012 Reply

  • quietlikeblood

    Three hour long show in London. What the bloody fuck.

    16 May 2012 Reply

  • ZACHAROO

    Found black radio from NPR. Afro Blue <3

    13 May 2012 Reply
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