Robert Glasper with Special Guest Common

A concert billed as Robert Glasper with special guest Common, staged at Blue Note London on Saint Martin's Lane. It brings together an American jazz pianist and a rapper and actor from Chicago.

Robert Glasper is an American jazz pianist and producer whose album Black Radio (2012) moved between jazz, hip-hop and contemporary R&B, and which won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Album. His work regularly draws on the rhythms and song forms of soul and hip-hop alongside acoustic jazz playing, a combination that has shaped his recordings since the early 2010s.

Common is an American rapper and actor from Chicago, whose album Be (2005) remains one of the most widely discussed records in the hip-hop of its period. The billing places him as a special guest alongside Glasper, linking the two artists'longstanding interest in jazz-influenced hip-hop.

Blue Note London is a concert venue on Saint Martin's Lane, in the centre of London. The night will suit listeners who follow the crossover between jazz and hip-hop, and those interested in how these two traditions meet on stage.