Lalah, ledisi, musiq, crissette, stokley, erykah, bilal & meshell ndegeocello on 1 cd

[glencro]

My latest music purchase and I LOVE IT!!!!

Robert Glasper Experiment's " Black Radio" [[Blue Note Records/EMI), a future landmark album 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. The fi rst full-length album from the GRAMMY-nominated keyboardist's electric Experiment band--saxist/vocoderist Casey Benjamin, bassist Derrick Hodge, and drummer Chris Dave--Black Radio also features many of Glasper's famous friends from the spectrum of urban music, seamlessly incorporating appearances from a jaw-dropping roll call of special guests including Erykah Badu, Bilal, Lupe Fiasco, Lalah Hathaway, Shafi q Husayn [[Sa-Ra), KING, Ledisi, Chrisette Michele, Musiq Soulchild, Meshell Ndegeocello, Stokley Williams [[Mint Condition), and yasiin bey [[Mos Def).

Throughout, the Experiment wears its eclecticism on its sleeve, presenting new collaborative originals and surprising cover songs. They transform the Afro-Cuban standard "Afro Blue" with Badu, Sade's "Cherish The Day" with Hathaway, David Bowie's "Letter to Hermione" with Bilal, and Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" with Benjamin's vocoder vocal

[paladin]

Sounds interesting........

[glencro]

I'm really loving this cd. Here's the song with Musiq Soulchild & Chrisette Michell

[destruction]

Not my usual musical hood...a little on the smooth side......but after my third listening....I begin diggin it. Found some more tracks.....and dug it some more.

It's a 7 buck download. In the words of Hound Dog Taylor...."I got money, I'm gonna try it."

Thx.....I probably would not have found this on my own.

[glencro]

Not my usual musical hood...a little on the smooth side......but after my third listening....I begin diggin it. Found some more tracks.....and dug it some more.

It's a 7 buck download. In the words of Hound Dog Taylor...."I got money, I'm gonna try it."

Thx.....I probably would not have found this on my own.

Glad you gave it a try...forgot to mention the $6.99 download [[another incentive)

[paladin]

I'm on the Train.........

[glencro]

Glad that this cd won Grammy for "Best R & B Album" and with very little airplay

[splanky]

This release and others are part of a larger conversation some of us jazz heads have been
having on and offline for some time now. Obviously it is a determined attempt by Robert,
Es and some others to get jazz back into the forefront of music by bringing in currently popular elements and artists. It's a ground that has been tred upon before as far back as
Guru and Premier's [[Gangstar) experiments and as recent as the work of Terri Lyn Carrington, but not with the success Robert has achieved. There are a lot of other things
at play here and clearly the landscape is again evolving but overall I welcome the change.
Though I'm not a big fan of Chrisette Michelle [[ someone gave me her I Am cd and I found
it too juvenile...) she works in this setting. Anyway here is a link to some of the conversation to this music:

http://frontpsych.com/2012/02/27/not...anza-spalding/

And if you really want to see what really got a pot stirring debate in jazz in recent years check out the
talk about Nicholas Payton's release titled...excuse me...Bitches.....