Common & Robert Glasper
Hip-hop icon Common and jazz superstar Robert Glasper join forces for a festive takeover, sharing feel good hits and the best highlights from their record collections.
Hip-hop icon Common and jazz superstar Robert Glasper join forces for a festive takeover, sharing feel good hits and the best highlights from their record collections. Common is a Grammy, Academy and Golden Globe Award winning American rapper and actor. He released his first album Can I Borrow a Dollar in 1992, and his subsequent, acclaimed albums include Like Water for Chocolate, Electric Circus and Be. He is also known for his acting roles in films including Just Wright, The Odd Life of Timothy Green and Selma. His latest album, A Beautiful Revolution Pt. 2, was released in September this year. Robert Glasper – who has also won multiple Grammy Awards - is an American pianist, songwriter and producer. He is known for his albums including Canvas, In My Element and Black Radio and Black Radio 2. He performed at the 6 Music Festival in Camden in 2020. Common and Robert Glasper collaborated together on the theme song for Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices – a TV series which saw Black celebrities and artists reading children’s books from Black authors.
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Music Played
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Common
The Light
- Motown.
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Robert Glasper Experiment
Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Bilal
All That I Am
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Soul II Soul, Jazzie B, Adrian McKenzie, Kashta Tafari, Ellen Blair, Gill Morley, Emma Louise Bucknor, Jody Findley, Samantha Serona, MC Chickaboo & Caron Wheeler
Keep On Movin'
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Chaka Khan
I Know You, I Live You
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Common
Say Peace (feat. Black Thought)
- Common/Loma Vista.
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Yasiin Bey
Umi Says
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Robert Glasper
Better Than I Imagined (feat. H.E.R. & Meshell Ndegeocello)
- Loma Vista Recordings.
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A Tribe Called Quest
Scenario
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Erykah Badu
Didn't Cha Know
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Nina Simone
I Think It's Going To Rain Today
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Ye
Touch The Sky
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Kendrick Lamar
These Walls
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Terrace Martin, James Fauntleroy, Ty Dolla $ign & Kendrick Lamar
Drones
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Cleo Sol
Promises
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John Coltrane
Naima
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Luther Vandross
Make Me A Believer
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Anita Baker
Giving You The Best That I Got
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Omar
Little Boy
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The Root
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August Greene
Black Kennedy
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August Greene
Piano Interlude
Broadcasts
- Thu 23 Dec 2021 10:30³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 6 Music
- Fri 22 Dec 2023 02:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 6 Music