“It’s like you’re listening to an impromptu jam session, where everything and everyone is clicking on all cylinders… There’s no stopping Glasper, and thank goodness for that.”

“Robert Glasper’s energy is infectious… Intelligent, creative, and incredibly impassioned, the pianist is the ideal flag-bearer for the new jazz era.”

“A model of versatility, open-mindedness and general good music appreciation; one of America’s premier black-music jam bands.”

 “Angling toward something new that makes use of an older model. It points to an ideal that’s organic, complex, more or less pop, more or less contemporary, and black-identified.”

“Robert Glasper heads down the fraught path of hip-hop jazz and gets it right… it feels like a blueprint forward.”

“Robert Glasper is electrifying a music genre.”