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Robert Glasper Blue Note Jazz Festival 2023

For all of his musical accomplishments, Robert Glasper stands as one of the vital versatile but accessible musicians of his technology. In a current chat, the Grammy Award-winning pianist and composer shared with Hip-Hop Wired his imaginative and prescient of The Black Radio Expertise and bringing the soulful vibes to Napa Valley for Labor Day Weekend.

Robert Glasper has over a dozen releases that span the audio expanses of Jazz, Soul, R&B, Funk, and Hip-Hop. By means of the world-famous Blue Be aware document label, Glasper launched Black Radio in 2012 and it was true to his interpretation of what a Black radio station below his watchful route. The preliminary idea led to a Black Radio trilogy that concluded in 2022, and he’s nonetheless reinventing himself as an artist by means of his newest undertaking, Let Go.

Robert Glasper Blue Note Jazz Festival 2023

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Anybody who has ever attended a Robert Glasper present learns swiftly that he’s, no doubt, a masterful but playful showman whose dexterity as a pianist permits him to open his musical sandbox to a large tapestry of sounds. In our discuss with Glasper, we requested him what The Black Radio Expertise means to him and the way he intends to deliver these concepts to life within the Wine Nation of Northern California.

“The Black Radio Expertise, identical to you hear on my albums, it’s simply that vibe and you’ll see the competition will function artists which have appeared on the Black Radio albums like Widespread, Jill Scott, Ledisi, Terrace Martin, Derrick Hodge,” Glasper explains.

“It’s not about having the most popular tune out or something however a set of artists that make songs that deliver these good emotions out. These are artists who promote actual music, love, honesty, and all of that from a Black and soulful perspective. That’s what The Black Radio Expertise is and at all times will likely be,” Glasper added.

Glasper shared that whereas the theme of the Blue Be aware Jazz Competition in Napa has maintained that creed for the previous three years, this yr’s competition widens the scope with a give attention to Black wine manufacturers, cooks bringing curated menu ideas to gentle, and making the competition a protected area for celebration of the extensive scope of Black creativity that features the humanities and dance as nicely.

“The competition is simply an extension of the love I’ve for the music and the individuals and what I got down to do on the primary Black Radio album, which is to say that is what Black radio stations could possibly be,” Glasper mentioned.

“After I made that first album, I used to be already immersed in several kinds of music and taking part in it however committing it to wax was the subsequent step, and over time with the competition, we’ve been capable of deliver my imaginative and prescient of Black Radio to the phases and present that there’s a lot to us as a artistic individuals,” Glasper shared.

Blue Note Jazz Festival 2023 Experience

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Among the many headliners for The Blue Be aware Jazz Competition Presents: The Black Radio Expertise, which incorporates the aforementioned acts from the albums, is André 3000. Three Stacks has famously moved on from the rapping portion of his profession and leaning into instrumental music by means of his newest album, New Blue Solar. Glasper says that he discovered the Atlanta artist’s option to strive one thing new inspirational and that was his thought in creating his newest physique of labor, Let Go.

“I had so many individuals inform me that they listened to New Blue Solar and mediated to it or cleaned their home to it, hell, even I did the identical,” Glasper mentioned. “I had individuals inform me that they’d do the identical to a few of my music and that was the explanation why I partnered with Apple Music to drop Let Go. I wished to provide listeners one thing to reset their day to and even to encourage myself to take it gradual.”

Robert Glasper will likely be in Napa, Calif. this Labor Day Weekend for The Blue Be aware Jazz Competition Presents: The Black Radio Expertise.

To be taught extra concerning the competition, click on right here.

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