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The 2022 Academy Awards will have something a little different for this year’s telecast: an all-star band to underline the show, featuring pianist Robert Glasper, headline-making drummer Travis Barker, legendary lead singer Sheila E., and music director Adam Blackstone.

2022 Oscars ceremony. On Tuesday, show producers Will Packer and Shayla Cowan announced that Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and FINNEAS, Reba McEntire and Sebastián Yatra will perform tracks nominated in the Best Song category during Sunday's 94th Oscars.Beyoncé will perform «Be Alive» from , Eilish and FINNEAS will perform «No Time to Die» from the James Bond film of the same name, McEntire will perform «Somehow You Do» from , and Yatra will perform «Dos Oruguitas» from . «Down to Joy» from is also nominated in the category, but Van Morrison had to turn down an offer to perform during the telecast due to his ongoing tour.The news comes after the Academy announced that there will be an all-star band featuring drummer Travis Barker, iconic percussionist and singer Sheila E. and prolific pianist Robert Glasper at the 2022 ceremony.The awards show's music director, Adam Blackstone, will lead the group in performances during the show as well as with an in-house orchestra, returning to the Oscars stage this year after last year's modified ceremony. The Samples, a vocal group led by Jason White, also will appear on the show.Also performing at this year's Oscars, as well as at the post-show Governors Ball, will be DJ D-Nice, who will bring the unifying fun of his Club Quarantine livestreams to the Academy stage.ET recently spoke with Regina Hall -- who is co-hosting this year's Oscars alongside Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes — and the actress said she couldn't be more excited for the big night! «I think it's exciting, like, it's Women's History Month, it's quite historic, all of us together,» Hall said.

Denzel Curry has shared T-Pain collaboration ‘Troubles’, the third single to be lifted from the rapper’s forthcoming album ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’ ahead of its arrival this Friday (March 25).‘Troubles’ features production from Kenny Beats, who Curry teamed up with back in 2020 for their ‘Unlocked’ EP (along with its remix project, ‘Unlocked 1.5’, the following year.) It arrives alongside a video directed by Adrian Villagomez, who also helmed the clips for the new album’s previous singles, ‘Walkin’ and ‘Zatoichi’.Check that out below:Curry announced ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’ back in January. The follow-up to 2019’s ‘Zuu’ features a wide assortment of producers, including JPEGMAFIA, Thundercat and Robert Glasper.

In addition to performances of Oscar-nominated songs, the 2022 Academy Awards will have another musical treat underlining the telecast: an all-star band featuring pianist Robert Glasper along with headline-making drummer Travis Barker, legendary lead singer Sheila E., and musical director Adam Blackstone. You may know Travis from Blink-182 fame and Sheila E. is best known from her work with Prince, but we’re here to break down five things about a Robert, a supremely talented musician set to add his bit of spice to the show.

Travis Barker, Sheila E., and Robert Glasper will appear alongside Adam Blackstone as part of an all-star band at the 94th Academy Awards this year.Show producers Will Packer and Shayla Cowan announced on Friday (March 18) that the four musical performers will join under the name the All-Star Band at the show.The supergroup will likely feature Sheila E. on vocals, Glasper on piano/keys, and Blink-182‘s Barker on drums, with Blackstone joining as the show’s music director.

Travis Barker, Sheila E and DJ D-Nice are set to hit the stage at the 2022 Oscars!

The Oscars on Friday set some of the musicians who will perform on the live ABC ceremony on March 27 from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

Academy Awards producers announced the first slate of performers for the upcoming 2022 Oscars ceremony on Friday, which will include an all-star band featuring drummer Travis Barker, iconic percussionist and singer Sheila E. and prolific pianist Robert Glasper.The awards show's music director, Adam Blackstone, will lead the group in performances during the show as well as with an in-house orchestra, returning to the Oscars stage this year after last year's modified ceremony. The Samples, a vocal group led by Jason White, also will appear on the show.Also performing at this year's Oscars, as well as at the post-show Governors Ball, will be DJ D-Nice, who will bring the unifying fun of his Club Quarantine livestreams to the Academy stage. Additionally, D-Nice will host the official Oscars Club Quarantine pre-party, with special guests, via Instagram Live (@dnice and @theacademy) on Friday, March 18, from 6:30-8 p.m.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Oscars will feature an unusual all-star band starring Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, legendary singer-percussionist Sheila E. and iconic jazz pianist Robert Glasper along with musical director Adam Blackstone, show producers Will Packer and Shayla Cowan announced. The Oscars air live on ABC and broadcast outlets worldwide on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at 8 p.m.

The new project from Atlanta's EarthGang got a bit delayed by sample clearance issues, but it's here today with a J.I.D. feature to make up for the blown release date.

Denzel Curry has shared a new single that features Slowthai – listen to ‘Zatoichi’ below.The song is the second release from his upcoming album ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’, which Curry announced earlier this month with a teaser video, revealing the record would feature contributions from T-Pain, Slowthai, Rico Nasty, Kenny Beats, JPEGMAFIA, Thundercat, Robert Glasper and more. A release date is yet to be confirmed.The latest song has been produced by Powers Pleasant and features Slowthai on the song’s chorus.The video for the song was filmed on location in Peru, ‘Zatoichi’ and follows on from the Sci-Fi Western visuals seen in the recently-released single ‘Walkin’.Watch the video here:Speaking about his upcoming album, Curry said: “I like traditional hip hop, I like drum and bass, I like trap, I like poetry, so a lot of that is going to be interwoven in this album including jazz and a lot of genres that I came up on as a kid and just being in my parents’ house.”The follow up to 2019’s ‘Zuu’, he added: “This album is made up of everything that I couldn’t give you on TA13OO or Imperial because I was going through depression anger issues.”Curry also announced details of North American, UK and European tour dates for 2022.

Will Smith‘s longtime musical accomplice DJ Jazzy Jeff has lavished praise on the new Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air reboot, calling the show “mind-blowing”.Bel-Air sees newcomer Jabari Banks take on the role of Will as his life changes up following the move from West Philadelphia to Bel-Air in Los Angeles.Speaking in a recent interview with HipHopDX, Jeff spoke highly of Smith’s work as executive producer on the show.He said: “I wasn’t involved in the making [of the show], but I am one of the hosts of the official Bel-Air podcast that’s coming out. I am super-duper excited because, without giving any spoilers, if someone was to take The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air in the ’90s and move it to ’20 to ’22 and put a dramatic spin on it, I don’t think they could have done a better job.“I think more people are going to be talking about Bel-Air than the Super Bowl.

Denzel Curry has shared a new single, ‘Walkin’, the first to be lifted from his forthcoming album ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’.The new cut sees the Florida-raised rapper deliver a powerhouse vocal performance, spitting rapid-fire bars above an atmospheric, Kal Banx-produced beat.‘Walkin’ arrives alongside a sci-fi and western-themed video directed by Adrian Villagomez, in which Curry journeys across a desolate desert planet before a final confrontation with John Wayne. Watch that below:Curry announced ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’ earlier this month with a teaser video, revealing the album would feature contributions from T-Pain, Slowthai, Rico Nasty, Kenny Beats, JPEGMAFIA, Thundercat, Robert Glasper and more.

The Soul Rebels have been bridging the New Orleans brass band tradition with hip-hop from the city and beyond for the better part of the new millennium. They've played with Nas, Talib Kweli, Dave East, fellow fusionist Robert Glasper, and countless others, becoming one of the few New Orleans brass acts to gain popularity outside Louisiana and the niche European and Japanese markets that still support the artform.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorNew York’s Blue Note Jazz Club is back in a big way this summer, with Ron Carter, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Robert Glasper, Jacob Collier, Eddie Palmieri, John Scofield and Al Di Meola among the musicians scheduled to perform at the Sony Presents Blue Note Jazz Festival, to be held this summer from June 15 – August 15.The performances will take place both indoors at the iconic Blue Note Jazz Club in Greenwich Village — one of the first music venues in

Andrew Hampp Tiana Major9’s 2019 collaboration with Earthgang, “Collide,” entered 2021 with two major milestones under its belt: it was the love theme for the 2019 Daniel Kaluuya drama “Queen & Slim,” and one of five 2020 Grammy nominees for Best R&B Song (which Robert Glasper ended up taking home last weekend).

A year after surprise-dropping their 8-song joint EP Unlocked, Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats have announced the upcoming release of Unlocked 1.5, a reimagining of some of the original album's best moments. 1.5 boasts features from Benny the Butcher, Arlo Parks, and Kenny Mason alongside production from The Alchemist, Charlie Heat, Sango, Jay Versace, Georgia Anne Muldrow, and Robert Glasper, who helmed new a new version of "So.Incredible.pkg" featuring Smino.

Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats have announced new album ‘Unlocked 1.5’, which is a reimagining of their 2020 collaboration ‘Unlocked’.The eight-track EP came out last February, and the new version features a number of guest appearances.‘Unlocked 1.5’ is due out on March 5, featuring contributions from Arlo Parks, Joey Bada$$, Benny The Butcher and more.Ahead of the release of the album, the pair have shared a new version of ‘So.Incredible.pkg’, produced by Robert Glasper and featuring Smino –

Concord Music Publishing has signed a new deal with pianist and record producer Robert Glasper as part of the company’s joint venture with Loma Vista Recordings.

Bilal shared a brand new 3-track album, VOYAGE​-​19, on Sunday. Released in partnership with Brooklyn-based recording studio and digital music network HighBreedMusic, the album was written, recorded, mixed, and mastered in a series of live streams over the course of three days in August.

Bilal has shared a new project called ‘Voyage-19’, which hears the soul star team up with Erykah Badu, Robert Glasper and many others.Released in partnership with Brooklyn-based recording studio and music channel HighBreedMusic, ‘Voyage-19’ was written and recorded over the span of three days in August, with the musicians contributing remotely from their home studios.For 54 hours, the world watched Bilal create the project in a live-streamed event with help from the likes of Badu, Glasper, Chuck

Doja Cat, Kamasi Washington, Vagabon, Denzel Curry, Robert Glasper, Jessie Reyez and Ne-Yo, among others.‘Evil N****r’ was composed by Eastman in 1979 and is known to be performed with multiple pianos at a time.This isn’t Blood Orange’s first classical recording; last year, Hynes also teamed up Third Coast Percussion to release a 13-track classical album, ‘Fields’, which was described as “non-essential, luxury ambient sounds” in a three-star review by NME.

Kamasi Washington, Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper and 9th Wonder‘s newly formed supergroup Dinner Party have released their debut album – listen to it below.The self-titled seven-track project arrived yesterday (July 11) and features Chicago singer Phoelix on a number of tracks.Nearly two years in the making, Martin, who is best known for working with Kendrick Lamar,  rented out Chalice studios in Los Angeles at the end of 2019 and the four musicians worked on the project any change they

Kamasi Washington, Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper and 9th Wonder have formed a new supergroup called Dinner Party.The collaborative project has been launched with ‘Freeze Tag’, which is set appear on the group’s forthcoming self-titled debut album.Arriving with an official studio-based video, the uplifting cut sees Phoelix provide guest vocals.

“A lot of musicians have so many fucking rules in their heads that they limit themselves,” Terrace Martin says, halfway through an interview that’s picking up pace as he talks about the intersection of jazz and hip-hop.

In light of the ongoing protests demanding racial justice across the nation, Leon Bridges stopped by The Late Late Show With James Corden on Thursday night (June 18) to perform his timely track "Sweeter" with Terrace Martin and Robert Glasper.

John Legend and Alicia Keys are staging a piano-off as part of Swizz Beatz and Timbaland’s latest Verzus battle on Friday (June 19, 2020).After a series of rap battles and reggae stand-offs between hitmakers in recent weeks, Beatz’s wife Alicia and Legend are going head to head as part of the live stream initiative.The show starts at 5 pm ET and fans can tune in on John and Alicia’s Instagram pages.Meanwhile, Common, and his August Greene bandmates, Robert Glasper and Karriem Riggins, will lead

Juneteenth looks to be a special holiday for the Black community on Friday as Live Nation Urban and LiveXLive Media, Inc. collaborate with Color of Change for a 90-minute showcase titled Lift Every Voice: A Juneteenth Special. 

Your film “The Photograph” was released earlier this year. How did your experience differ from previous projects?I loved shooting in Louisiana.

Things are proceeding "full steam ahead" for the 41st annual Detroit Jazz Festival despite the novel coronavirus pandemic that's forced the postponement and cancellation of so many other music events.

It’s been five years since Kendrick Lamar released his seminal third album, To Pimp a Butterfly. To mark the anniversary, XXL just took a trip down memory lane by compiling behind-the-scenes tales—and one of the TPAB collaborators, jazz pianist Robert Glasper, walked away with a greater appreciation for the Compton rapper’s vocal dexterity.