When an airplane crashes and burns, it’s the thing that survives. It was about the black box, or black radio, in an airplane. He spoke to The Globe and Mail on Zoom from Los Angeles.ĭoes Black Radio mean anything more than the obvious?īlack Radio is actually a song I wrote with Yasiin Bey back in 2007. Everybody, then, wants to be in Glasper’s world.
“He heard it and said, ‘You have to let me get on that song,’” Glasper recalls.Ĭommon then added his socially conscious rap. Lalah Hathaway contributes the vocals to Everybody Wants to Rule the World, The track was already done when Glasper previewed song to the rapper Common. and Meshell Ndegeocello), which won the Grammy for Best R&B Song a year ago. The album includes the previously released single Better Than I Imagined (with H.E.R. The cover is one of 13 cuts of R&B infused with jazz and hip hop he made with Gregory Porter, Esperanza Spalding, Jennifer Hudson, Killer Mike, India.Arie and many others. “I went in and put down the piano part immediately.” “I was driving to the studio when it came on,” says Glasper, who won a Grammy Award for his album Black Radio in 2013. Asked about the cover of the Tears for Fears’ anthem Everybody Wants to Rule the World on his new Black Radio III album, Glasper says he just happened to hear it one day on, what else, the radio. One might think the maestro would have a master plan for the collaborations and choices of original and borrowed material, but sometimes pure chance carries the day.
SUBLIME ALBUM COVER SERIES
With his acclaimed, continuing Black Radio series of albums, the American jazz pianist Robert Glasper corrals A-list musicians in sublime, genre-blending ways.
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