The legacy of Miles Davis will be celebrated on a pair of new releases curated by Grammy-winning pianist Robert Glasper. The first, Everything's Beautiful, is an all-star tribute album that finds Glasper collaborating with guests Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu, Laura Mvula, Bilal, John Scofield and m...
The legacy of Miles Davis will be celebrated on a pair of new releases curated by Grammy-winning pianist Robert Glasper. The first, Everything’s Beautiful, is an all-star tribute album that finds Glasper collaborating with guests Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu, Laura Mvula, Bilal, John Scofield and more. The second LP is the soundtrack for the upcoming Davis biopic Miles Ahead. In addition to Davis classics, the soundtrack will also feature new music by Glasper alongside artists like Gary Clark Jr, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and Don Cheadle, who plays the trumpeter in the film.
The Miles Ahead soundtrack is due out 1 April and Everything’s Beautiful arrives 27 May, the day after what would have been Davis’ 90th birthday.
Everything’s Beautiful Track List
1. “Talking Shit”
2. “Ghetto Walkin” featuring Bilal
3. “They Can’t Hold Me Down” featuring Illa J
4. “Maiysha (So Long)” featuring Erykah Badu
5. “Violets” featuring Phonte
6. “Little Church” featuring Hiatus Kaiyote
7. “Silence Is The Way” featuring Laura Mvula
8. “Song For Selim” featuring KING
9. “Milestones” featuring Georgia Ann Muldrow
10. “I’m Leaving You” featuring John Scofield and Ledisi
11. “Right On Brotha” featuring Stevie Wonder
Miles Ahead – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Track List
1. “Miles Ahead”
2. Dialogue: “It takes a long time…”
3. “So What”
4. Taylor Eigisti – “Taylor Made”
5. Dialogue: “Listen, you talk too goddam much…”
6. “Solea (excerpt)”
7. “Seven Steps To Heaven (edit)”
8. Dialogue: “If you gonna tell a story…”
9. “Nefertiti (edit)”
10. “Frelon Brun”
11. Dialogue: “Sometimes you have these thoughts…”
12. “Duran (take 6)” (edit)
13. Dialogue: “You own my music…”
14. “Go Ahead John” (part two C)
15. “Black Satin (edit)”
16. Dialogue: “Be musical about this shit…”
17. “Prelude #II”
18. Dialogue: “Y’all listening to them…?
19. Robert Glasper, Keyon Harrold, Marcus Strickland – “Junior’s Jam”
20. Robert Glasper, Keyon Harrold, Elena Pinderhughes – “Francessence”
21. “Back Seat Betty” (excerpt)
22. Dialogue: “I don’t like the word jazz…”
23. Don Cheadle, Robert Glasper, Gary Clark, Jr., Herbie Hancock, Keyon Harrold, Antonio Sanchez, Esperanza Spaulding, Wayne Shorter – “What’s Wrong With That?”
24. Robert Glasper, Keyon Harrold, Pharoahe Monch – “Gone 2015
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