R+R=Now's 'Live' Honors the Tradition of Black American Creative Music
22 January 2021 The space where jazz, R&B, and hip-hop converge no longer seems like it should be described as some kind of “fusion”, where one type of music gives way to or shares space with another. It is one unified space today, of course, and it’s easy to see that these intersections always were one space, whether defined by Ray Charles, Miles Davis, or Kendrick Lamar. R+R=Now is a group convened by an artist who is native to that space: pianist Robert Glasper. Shortly after the group’s studio album, Collagically Speaking, released in 2018, Glasper got a four-week stint at New Y...