Afro Blue (Glasper)
Context
Composed by Mongo Santamaría in 1959, "Afro Blue" is built on a six-pulse polyrhythm. Robert Glasper covers it on Black Radio (2012) with Erykah Badu on vocals, in a setting that blends jazz, soul and hip-hop. This version illustrates the rapprochement between contemporary jazz and current Black music.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Renaissances (Los Angeles, London). Among the origins and influences of Renaissances: Acid jazz, jazz-rap, nu jazz, Spiritual jazz, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk, British jazz, Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz, ECM and European jazz, Current scene (New York, Chicago, worldwide).