Rather than using a live band, her brother DJ Hektik plays mixes of hip-hop and jazz for their choreographed performances.
He is also known to play small club dates in New York as a part of The Robert Glasper Experiment, in which he further explores the intersection of hip-hop and jazz, with some neo-soul and funk thrown in.
On Sunday we begin with We The Undersigned, aka WtU. They are a Liverpool based collective that play a high energy mix of Reggae, Rock, Funk, Jazz and Hip Hop, topped with a four piece brass section.
She started sampling jazz and hip-hop at 18 in her native Japan and moved to the U.S. five years ago for more technical training in modern dance and ballet.
Pianist Robert Glasper has won attention for fusing jazz ideas with hip-hop sensibilities and often producing music with rappers and neo-soul singers.
From tap to ballet to jazz to modern to hip hop and B-Boy styles, there are a million variations of dance that allow performers to express themselves.
She moved to the U.S. for a time, and American jazz, soul and hip-hop became part of her musical mix, along with reggae, Latin and other world sounds.
At the same time, within the big markets, a range of new genres hip-hop, trip-hop, lounge, acid house, acid jazz, and many, many more are growing at the expense of the mainstream.
He says growing up listening to his mother sing in Houston, Texas, helped shape his appreciation for various musical forms such as jazz, rock, and hip-hop that he now incorporates into his own work.
The migrants brought the blues and gave birth to jazz, rock, rhythm and blues and hip-hop.
There was a Sunday evening at a jazz club, sharing enthusiasm and a boredom with hip-hop, Kwaito.
Although at home her genres of choice are rock, hip-hop, and opera, the music she was making onstage was all jazz.
But on his newest album, In My Element, 28-year-old Glasper delivers his own brand of jazz to a generation largely composed of listeners only exposed to hip-hop.
It was home to some of the country's best Latin jazz musicians in the 1940s and 50s and later gave birth to hip-hop.
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