The decision is all yours: cutting-edge jazz or over-the-edge, psychedelic prog-rock jamming.
The New York-based Robert Glasper Experiment takes the idea of rhythm and space, mixes it with hip-hop, and turns jazz into something quite unlikely and decidedly fresh.
Glasper, a native of Texas whose piano stylings have stirred the pot and created a real buzz nationally, is about to release a new album, "Black Radio," that's billed as drawing "from jazz, hip-hop, R&B and rock, but refuses to be pinned down by any one tag."
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