Miles Davis & Robert Glasper Everything's Beautiful - (M) (ONLINE ONLY!!)

Tributee: Miles Davis.Everything's Beautiful isn't quite a tribute or a remix project. It's not a collaboration between Miles Davis and Robert Glasper, as it is billed. On the surface, from a stylistic standpoint and in terms of personnel, it is closer to a sequel to Black Radio Recovered. Predominantly relaxed and rather ethereal, richly layered yet not quite psychedelic, and rhythmically hip-hop more than anything else, the two releases feature much of the same production and vocal lineup, including Glasper and partner Jewels, Georgia Anne Muldrow, 9th Wonder, and Bilal and Phonte. Likenesses to Black Radio Recovered notwithstanding, this should be taken on its on own terms. Issued the day after Davis would have turned 90, less than two months after the release of Don Cheadle's Miles Ahead -- for which Glasper co-produced the soundtrack and provided the score -- Everything's Beautiful was marketed as "reimagined interpretations." Sony's catalog division had sought Glasper for remixes