[youtube id=”leMe56ITfRA”] Esperanza Spalding’s EXPOSURE album is centered around improvisation and capturing the musical moment in one take. She brainstormed the project live on Facebook last week and Robert Glasper and Lalah Hathaway were two of her guests. Watch her and Lalah Hathaway in the above clip as they creatively decide on where jazz and R&B meet. EXPOSURE will only have 7,777 copies available.

Lalah Hathaway’s matchless cover of Anita Baker’s “Angel” gets remixed with BJ The Chicago Kid. Hathaway’s tribute to Baker has taken a life of its own and is one of the highlights of her Lalah Hathaway Live! album.

[youtube id=”P4RVzHAp1mA”]  Terrace Martin’s Velvet Portraits has a Grammy nomination for Best R&B album and he thinks the recognition is a triumph for his Crenshaw neighborhood in Los Angeles. “Oakland” is from Velvet Portraits and it’s about Martin’s belief in the city as one of the Black heartbeats of America. The song features Lalah Hathway’s vocals and the video is a series of city scenes directed by Lola Ridgell.

[youtube id=”dhUkFKLDKgw”] Lalah Hathaway and Pharrell perform “Surrender” from the Hidden Figures soundtrack at the Toronto Film Festival. Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Henson and Janelle Monae star the Black women of NASA who made the necessary calculations for  John Glenns’s trip into space.  Hidden Figures has a Christmas release date.