Robert Glasper

like i say, i haven't listened to the new album yet; the cut you posted is pleasant enough but yeah it ain't groundbreaking.
with the black radios, their accessibility and almost flippancy as regards genre is part of the appeal to me; they're solid pop jazz aimed at an audience that digs head wrap R&B and respectfully asks them to work a little to meet halfway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA81bMvO2_o

yeah i like black radio

basically this is how i break it down to an extent, i feel like these type of collab heavy concepts often start out pretty inspired and end up devolving into tony bennet + [popular singer right now] type formulas & and i hope we don't lose the jazz aspect to the point where glaspar is just making solid neo-soul/boho rap compilation albums....like taking a left turn might be a good thing right now, though if as you say he's developing and actual big non-jazz following that might be hard

i think he manages both audiences pretty well; i don't mean to insinuate that he's ignoring one direction or another.
if you'd like to try some more contemporary JAZZ jazz work on his behalf, try the Covered album from last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQuFyUIAlrs

also it likely goes without saying, because i've only seen him live a bunch and bought the t-shirt, but i'm not glasper's svengali and we've never even talked before so these are just my interps of the directions i've seen his work go in over the past decade. He's got his own masterplan!
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/06/robert-glasper-covered-interview
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/robert-glasper-covered-interview-premiere

dude worked with bilal on first born second as a for instance!

Looking forward, do you think you're going to release a straight-ahead originals jazz album?
Not at the moment. I'm not in that place at the moment. I'm not in that particular place because I did that for years. I did that for ten years, play straight ahead jazz tunes my way. I like where I’m at doing these kinds of songs. I feel like I'm bridging the gap. 'Cause there's just no reference. Getting a 20 year-old to like jazz, it's hard— it's damn near impossible. I think about it all the time. It's like trying to convince your grandmother to listen to Lil Wayne and like it. Literally the same thing. I just like to switch it around 'cause it makes people really believe. Think about it! Because your grandmother has no reference of Lil Wayne. She comes from a whole other era! She doesn’t know what's happening! When she hears that she’s like “What!?” but we’ll be like “Oh, we get it.” So it's the same thing. Parents will be like “We get it.” But the 20 year-olds, they don’t get that. They don’t grow up in an era with original jazz music.

If I may jump in, the Miles album is a curious one in that it's neither a straightforward remix album, or a jazz record that improvises on the original themes. Not that there's anything wrong in theory with that hybrid - indeed, blending sample/remix culture with live jazz is one of Glasper's specialities as others have pointed out. But it's true that it's not particularly adventurous and a lot of the tracks sound like pleasant backpacker/Soulquarian cuts. The Bilal track is nice, but is nowhere as freaky as Bilal's recent stuff, which seems a bit of a missed opportunity. The best track is the KING one, which sounds more like KING than Miles or Glasper, with its swirling synths and vocals.

I agree there's a certain tastefulness to all this stuff, and I agree that it would be exciting to see jazzers engaging with more contemporary hip-hop sonics, but I think that'll come, especially in the current spirit of exchange. In the meantime, the new Jeff Parker record on International Anthem is really cool and plays some clever games in blurring the boundaries between live and sampled elements - so there are samples, but there's also bits where the musicians deliberately play like samples/loops. Has a nice uncanny effect, while still being an accessible, grooving fusion. If you dug the Maya McCraven record then this is a must hear.

"Get Dressed" is on that new Parker album? I like.

I just find his playing really boring. I much prefer Vijay Iyer as a contemporary jazz pianist.

Digging Covered so far

Covered is doing more for me than the Miles album, though I like some tracks on that one too

'Fuck Yo Feelings' from last year is sounding really good rn.

For all the jazz that's essentially beat-based, RG's group is the best at committing to a loop and digging into the tiny details, rather than just blowing over it.

Sax player Casey Benjamin from Robert Glasper’s band dead at 45. Had recently had surgery but no other details

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/casey-benjamin-dead-saxophone_n_660aabd9e4b0c4621eb7c1fe

I saw that all over socials last night, way too young, ugh.