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Everything's Beautiful is an album by American musician Robert Glasper based on Miles Davis' samples. It was released on May 27, 2016 through Blue Note/Legacy/Columbia Records. Recording sessions took place at Anu It! Studio, Brooklyn Recording and the Thingamajig Lab 2 in New York, Klearlight Studios and Precious House Studios in Dallas, the Peanut Gallery and Brightlady Studios in Raleigh, Willow Grove Studios in Australia, State Of The Ark in London, King Creative Studios and Wonderland Studios in Los Angeles, with additional recording at Westlake Recording Studios. Production was handled by 9th Wonder, Anu~Sun, Black Milk, DJ Spinna, Erykah Badu, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Hiatus Kaiyote, Jewels, Paris Strother, Rashad Smith, Robert Glasper, and Steve Berkowitz, who also served as executive producer with Adam Block, Erin Davis, Nicole Hegeman and Vince Wilburn. It features guest appearances from Bilal, Erykah Badu, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Hiatus Kaiyote, Illa J, Laura Mvula, Ledisi, Phonte, Stevie Wonder and We Are King, as well as contributions from bassists Derrick Hodge, Braylon Lacy and Burniss Travis, guitarists Danny Leznoff, Kyle Bolden and John Scofield, saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin, and keyboardist Joe Zawinul among others.

Everything's Beautiful
Studio album by
Robert Glasper and Miles Davis
ReleasedMay 27, 2016 (2016-05-27)
Studio
  • Anu It! Studio (Harlem, New York)
  • Klearlight Studio (Dallas, Texas)
  • The Peanut Gallery (Raleigh, North Carolina)
  • Brightlady Studios (Raleigh)
  • Precious House Studios (Dallas)
  • Willow Grove Studio (Australia)
  • State of the Ark (London)
  • KING Creative Studios (Los Angeles, California)
  • Brooklyn Recording (Brooklyn, New York)
  • Thingamajig Lab 2 (Brooklyn)
  • Wonderland Studios (Los Angeles)
  • Westlake Recording Studios (Los Angeles)
Genre
  • Alternative R&B
  • alternative hip hop
Length46:57
Label
  • Blue Note
  • Legacy
  • Columbia
Producer
Robert Glasper chronology
Covered: Recorded Live at Capitol Records
(2015)
Everything's Beautiful
(2016)
ArtScience
(2016)

In the United States, the album peaked at number 152 on the Billboard 200, at number-one on both the Top Contemporary Jazz Albums and Jazz Albums, at number five on the Top R&B Albums, at number ten on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and at number seventeen on the Tastemakers. It also reached #50 in Switzerland, #85 in the Netherlands, #94 in Germany, #178 in France, and #44 and #118 in Flanders and Wallonia (Belgium) respectively.


Critical reception


Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic73/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Exclaim!9/10[3]
Pitchfork7.4/10[4]
PopMatters8/10[5]
Rolling Stone[6]
Spill3/5[7]
The Independent4/5[8]
The Times[9]
Tom HullB+()[10]

Everything's Beautiful was met with generally favorable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 73 based on eleven reviews.[1]

Matt Bauer of Exclaim! gave the album 9 out of 10 stating: "Everything's Beautiful, indeed".[3] Emmanuel Elone of PopMatters found the album "is not the real tribute; it's Glasper's determination to evolve the genre that is, and I don't think Miles Davis would have it any other way".[5] Andy Gill of The Independent wrote: "Erykah Badu lends a childlike charm to the sunburnt fizz of Glasper's bossa nova version of "Maiysha (So Long)", with Miles's trumpet shining through towards the end".[8] Seth Colter Walls of Pitchfork wrote: "a trio of cuts toward the middle of Everything's Beautiful suffers from feeling less robustly reimagined than the rest of the set--placing a slight drag on momentum".[4] AllMusic's Andy Kellman wrote: "considering the disparate source material and the quantity of vocalists, instrumentalists, and producers involved, it's remarkable how smoothly the album flows from one track to the next. Unsurprisingly, it's most appealing to fans of Glasper and those he involved".[2] Greg Tate of Rolling Stone stated: "Glasper and his confreres have used Davis' inspiration to craft a moving and misterioso assemblage that, true-to-the-living Davis, refuses any scent of museum entombment".[6]

In mixed reviews, The Wire critic suggested: "Glasper is undoubtedly a class act, but the lacks the wildness a Madlib or a Flying Lotus might have brought to this project".[1] Mojo reviewer clared: "smooth soul or hip hop tropes being largely the order of the day here".[1] Siddhartha Mitter of The Boston Globe wrote: "the middle of the album is a problem, especially the Hiatus Kaiyote number, "Little Church", a strange, bloodless clunker that drags down the Mvula ("Silence Is the Way") and KING ("Song for Selim") features that follow. The Badu track, the electro-bossa nova "Maiysha (So Long)", is fine but familiar. Miles Davis concept aside, Glasper's still in Black Radio mode. It works, but it needs a little dirt, and probably a new challenge".[1] Mark Streeter of Now wrote: "in a way, this could be Glasper's Black Radio Volume 3: The Davis Edition. However, positioning the album as a tribute runs counter to his forward-looking use of the material".[1]


Track listing


Everything's Beautiful track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Talking Shit"
  • Robert Glasper
  • Jewels
3:09
2."Ghetto Walkin'" (featuring Bilal)
  • Bilal Oliver
  • Glasper
  • Davis
  • Robert Glasper
  • Jewels
3:42
3."They Can't Hold Me Down" (featuring Illa J)
  • John Derek Yancey
  • Glasper
  • Davis
  • Robert Glasper
  • Rashad Smith
2:14
4."Maiysha (So Long)" (featuring Erykah Badu)
7:29
5."Violets" (featuring Phonte)
  • Phonte Coleman
  • Glasper
  • Davis
9th Wonder3:23
6."Little Church" (featuring Hiatus Kaiyote)Hiatus Kaiyote6:35
7."Silence Is the Way" (featuring Laura Mvula)
  • Robert Glasper
  • Jewels
5:17
8."Song for Selim" (featuring King)
  • Paris Strother
  • Amber Strother
  • Anita Bias
  • Davis
Paris Strother2:39
9."Milestones" (featuring Georgia Anne Muldrow)DavisGeorgia Anne Muldrow4:16
10."I'm Leaving You" (featuring Ledisi)
  • Robert Glasper
  • Anu~Sun
  • Black Milk
  • Steve Berkowitz
3:13
11."Right on Brotha"
  • Christopher Robinson
  • Vincent Williams
  • Wayne Shorter
  • Davis
  • DJ Spinna
  • Chris Rob (co.)
5:00
Total length:46:57
Sample credits

Personnel



Charts


Chart performance for Everything's Beautiful
Chart (2016) Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[11] 44
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[12] 118
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[13] 85
French Albums (SNEP)[14] 178
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[15] 94
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[16] 50
US Billboard 200[17] 152
US Top Contemporary Jazz Albums (Billboard)[18] 1
US Top Jazz Albums (Billboard)[19] 1
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[20] 17
US Top R&B Albums (Billboard)[21] 5
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[22] 10

References


  1. "Critic Reviews for Everything's Beautiful - Metacritic". Metacritic. Retrieved November 18, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. Kellman, Andy. "Everything's Beautiful - Robert Glasper | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved November 18, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. Bauer, Matt (May 27, 2016). "Miles Davis & Robert Glasper Everything's Beautiful: The Recordings of Miles Davis Reimagined by Robert Glasper | Exclaim!". Exclaim!. Retrieved November 18, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. Walls, Seth Colter (May 28, 2016). "Robert Glasper / Miles Davis: Everything's Beautiful / Miles Ahead OST". Pitchfork. Retrieved November 18, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. Elone, Emmanuel (May 23, 2016). "Robert Glasper: Everything's Beautiful: The Recordings of Miles Davis Reimagined by Robert Glasper, PopMatters". PopMatters. Retrieved November 18, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. Tate, Greg (June 2, 2016). "Robert Glasper/Miles Davis 'Everything's...' Album Review". Rolling Stone. Retrieved November 18, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. Gayle, Conrad (May 27, 2016). "SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: MILES DAVIS & ROBERT GLASPER - EVERYTHING'S BEAUTIFUL". The Spill Magazine. Retrieved November 18, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. "Album reviews: Jake Bugg, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, and more". The Independent. June 15, 2016. Retrieved November 18, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. Pearson, Chris (June 10, 2016). "Jazz: Miles Davis and Robert Glasper: Everything's Beautiful". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  10. Hull, Tom. "Tom Hull: Grade List: Robert Glasper". www.tomhull.com. Retrieved November 18, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. "Ultratop.be – Miles Davis & Robert Glasper – Everything's Beautiful" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  12. "Ultratop.be – Miles Davis & Robert Glasper – Everything's Beautiful" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  13. "Dutchcharts.nl – Miles Davis & Robert Glasper – Everything's Beautiful" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  14. "Lescharts.com – Miles Davis & Robert Glasper – Everything's Beautiful". Hung Medien. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  15. "Offiziellecharts.de – Miles Davis & Robert Glasper – Everything's Beautiful" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  16. "Swisscharts.com – Miles Davis & Robert Glasper – Everything's Beautiful". Hung Medien. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  17. "Robert Glasper Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  18. "Robert Glasper Chart History (Top Contemporary Jazz Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  19. "Robert Glasper Chart History (Top Jazz Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  20. "Robert Glasper Chart History (Top Tastemaker Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  21. ""Robert Glasper Chart History (Top R&B Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  22. "Robert Glasper Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 18, 2021.





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