Robert Glasper

Watch Dave Chappelle join Thundercat and Robert Glasper onstage

Thundercat was joined by two special guests when he performed at Irving Plaza in New York City tonight over the course of his set: Robert Glasper, who came to sit in on keys, and later Dave Chappelle, who came on the stage to take the mic as Thundercat and Glasper played behind him. While talking to the crowd, Chappelle said, “Ladies and gentlemen: on stage tonight is the musical virtuosos… They spent hours and hours of their life practicing their craft, and tonight we get to enjoy the sum total of their work. Make some noise for your band.” He went on, “Thundercat, take this bass solo wherever you wanna go, ’cause we with you all the way, my brother, for real.” Watch it below, as well as some other clips from the show.

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Robert Glasper forming new group with Terrace Martin and James Fauntleroy

Robert Glasper announced that he is starting a musical group with Terrace Martin and James Fauntleroy during a recent interview with Complex. He stated that the group will be going to do a “little record or an EP,” and also said that he and Martin are “working with Herbie [Hancock] on his new record.” They have yet to release name or any other details for their upcoming project.

Glasper and Martin worked together in the past on Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly, and the three worked on Martin’s 2013 album 3ChordFold. Robert Glasper also released a new album called ArtScience.

Listen to Terrace Martin’s “No Right, No Wrong” which features Robert Glasper and James Fauntleroy above.

Erykah Badu and Robert Glasper rework Miles Davis’ “Maiysha”

With the Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead and its soundtrack, Jazz pianist Robert Glasper has been reworking parts of Miles Davis’ studio recordings for a Davis tribute album named Everything’s Beautiful. One recording is a remix of “Maiysha” featuring Erykah Badu. “I think Miles would’ve loved Erykah,” Glasper told Rolling Stone. The song, from Davis’ 1974 album Get Up With It, has been reworked into a bossa nova track. Everything’s Beautiful is out May 27.