Theatre on San Pedro Square Tickets: $25 advance, $30 door
“Real music is crash protected,” state the liner notes of Black Radio, the 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. With Black Radio, the Experiment band has fully arrived, featuring Glasper on piano, Derrick Hodge on bass, Mark Colenburg on drums and Casey Benjamin on saxophone. Black Radio also
features appearances from a jaw-dropping roll call of
special guests including Erykah Badu, Bilal, Lupe Fiasco, Lalah Hathaway,
Shafiq Husayn (Sa-Ra), KING, Ledisi, Chrisette Michele, Musiq Soulchild,
Meshell Ndegeocello, Stokley Williams (Mint Condition), and yasiin bey.
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.”
Personnel Robert Glasper, piano Casey Benjamin, saxophone Derrick Hodge. bass Mark Colenburg, drums
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