{"id":391,"date":"2013-11-12T09:43:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T14:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=391"},"modified":"2013-11-18T09:12:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T14:12:50","slug":"robert-glasper-experiment-black-radio-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/robert-glasper-experiment-black-radio-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Glasper Experiment <br>Black Radio 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert_Glasper_Experiment-Black_Radio_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-392\" alt=\"Robert Glasper Experiment, Black Radio 2\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert_Glasper_Experiment-Black_Radio_2.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert_Glasper_Experiment-Black_Radio_2.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert_Glasper_Experiment-Black_Radio_2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Sequelitis is commonplace in Hollywood, but its \u201cfamiliarity breeds comfort\u201d approach has increasingly gotten a foothold in the music industry. While in the past bands would often invoke the specter of earlier, universally loved works as either a sign of course correction or playing off of nostalgia, now more than ever artists are just slapping a number after the title and hoping the craven approach isn\u2019t a turn-off. This practice can be seen in various genres, but it\u2019s particularly rampant in the hip-hop and R&amp;B worlds. Add to the growing list <i>Black Radio 2<\/i>, the sequel to the Robert Glasper Experiment\u2019s Grammy award-winning album.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, you can\u2019t fault Glasper. Jazz musicians generally have a lower profile than their contemporaries, so if you do manage to win the Grammy for Best R&amp;B Album and <i>not<\/i> a jazz Grammy, it makes sense to take the raised profile and run with it. But to name a new record after one that came out less than 21 months ago seems a touch desperate. There\u2019s nothing wrong with continuing down the path, but ultimately the record should stand on its own merit.<\/p>\n<p>Like its predecessor, <i>Black Radio 2<\/i> pairs the Robert Glasper Experiment\u2014Robert Glasper on keyboards, Derrick Hodge on bass, Mark Colenburg on drums, and Casey Benjamin on vocoder and saxophone\u2014with a stacked roster of singers and rappers. It\u2019s the type of record that will appeal to fans with worn copies of <i>Red Hot &amp; Cool<\/i> and Guru\u2019s <i>Jazzmatazz<\/i> series. It\u2019s also the spiritual sequel to many of the records that came out during the neo-soul era. Make no mistake, the band isn\u2019t phoning-in the performances, but there\u2019s not the expansive exploration one expects from jazz. The playing is tasteful and sophisticated, and it\u2019s to Glasper\u2019s credit that he can reign in the band and let the singers shine. But when they do let go, on the Norah Jones\u2013led, drum &amp; bass\u2013influenced \u201cLet It Ride,\u201d it\u2019s the perfect balance of the two approaches.<\/p>\n<p>As a whole, <i>Black Radio 2<\/i> shows why Glasper is a Grammy winner. It\u2019s a mature R&amp;B record without being old and stuffy. It also feature possibly some of the best performances in years from Brandy and Faith Evans. It falls short in the \u201cradio\u201d part of the title, a concept that gets dropped fairly early on, and the voicemail messages interspersed throughout the album, while a running theme in Glasper\u2019s work, are fairly extraneous. And unfortunately the Snoop and Lupe collaboration, \u201cPersevere\u201d is deeply lackluster, while Patrick Stump seems poorly utilized when matched with Common on \u201cI Stand Alone.\u201d However, those are minor speedbumps, and <i>Black Radio 2<\/i> is a station worth adding to your presets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sequelitis is commonplace in Hollywood, but its \u201cfamiliarity breeds comfort\u201d approach has increasingly gotten a foothold in the music industry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,134,133],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-blue-note-records","tag-robert-glasper-experiment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Robert Glasper Experiment Black Radio 2 - The Agit Reader<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/robert-glasper-experiment-black-radio-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Robert Glasper Experiment Black Radio 2 - The Agit Reader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sequelitis is commonplace in Hollywood, but its \u201cfamiliarity breeds comfort\u201d approach has increasingly gotten a foothold in the music industry\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/robert-glasper-experiment-black-radio-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Agit Reader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheAgitReader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-11-12T14:43:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-11-18T14:12:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert_Glasper_Experiment-Black_Radio_2.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dorian S. 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