From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2015 #556 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website: http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Thursday, October 1 2015 Volume 2015 : Number 556 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: JMDL Digest V2015 #552 [Laurie Antonioli ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 10:30:38 -0700 From: Laurie Antonioli Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2015 #552 All roads eventually lead to Joni! Glasper is a little late to the party. : ) On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 9:42 AM, JMDL Digest wrote: > > JMDL Digest Thursday, October 1 2015 Volume 2015 : Number 552 > > > > ========== > > TOPICS and authors in this Digest: > -------- > This Just In [Michael Paz < > michael@thepazgroup.com>] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 11:41:34 -0500 > From: Michael Paz > Subject: This Just In > > This just came into my in box. Attention Covers King!!! > > Robert Glaspar covers Joni > > > http://www.emusician.com/artists/1333/in-the-studio-robert-glasper/54048 > > > In the category of Problems We All Wish We Had, you ll find Robert Glasper > s > challenging decision as to how to follow up his Grammy-winning Robert > Glasper > Experiment albums, Black Radio and Black Radio 2. > > Glasper formed the Experiment after recording with the Robert Glasper Trio > for > several years. The first Black Radio album shook his fan base and the R&B > world mightily with its blend of electronic and acoustic jazz, spoken word, > R&B, and hip hop, all embellished with inventive arrangements and effects, > and > featuring multiple guest vocalists. > > With Black Radio 2 (2013), Glasper continued this avant-garde approach, and > built on a new fan base that extended into the R&B and electronica realms. > > Now, it s been five years since I played trio, Glasper says, and my > friends > in the jazz world are like, Where d you go? You left us! I was also > feeling > like this is the time to give the Black Radio vibe a break. I wanted to go > back and do a trio record. I missed playing piano and the piano trio vibe. > But > I also always want to something different that I haven t done before. > > So I thought, if I m going to go trio, I m not going to go back and just > do > jazz tunes again. I ve acquired this mainstream audience, and I want to > bring > them along on the trio journey. That s why I chose to do cover songs. > > Glasper also saw potential pitfalls in choosing covers that would fit with > his > trio return. I didn t just want to do all R&B songs, he explains. > Because > that can be corny. I decided to do songs from my iPod: different songs that > I ve loved through the years, from different genres. > > So while the tools and the lineup are stripped down for the trio album > Covered, the palette of material is almost as broad as can be, featuring > the > music of Joni Mitchell, Radiohead, Macy Gray, Jheni Aiko, Kendrick Lamar, > Quincy Jones, Harry Belafonte, and more. It s random as hell, Glasper > says. > I love the fact that it s random. > > ------------------------------ > > End of JMDL Digest V2015 #552 > ***************************** > > ------- > To post messages to the list,sendto joni@smoe.org > Unsubscribe by clicking here: > mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe > ------- ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2015 #556 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendto joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------