The keyboardist Robert Glasper has suddenly released a guest-laden mixtape with a title unprintable here. He understands both agitprop urgency and musicianly nuances. And he merges jazz-harmony explorations with hip-hop looping — the repetitive versus the improvisatory — for a reason. “Endangered Black Woman” (with Andra Day and Staceyann Chin) and “Expectations” (with Baby Rose and Rapsody) two adjacent tracks at the center of the mixtape, give the rhythms room to move and the vocalists plenty to say about bodies, rights and autonomy, personal and political. PARELES

Pat Thomas and Kwashibu Area Band, ‘Yamona’

A beloved Ghanaian vocalist, the 72-year-old Pat Thomas has long been known as the “Golden Voice of Africa.” He became a star in the highlife era of the 1960s and ’70s, performing often with Ebo Taylor, then eventually embraced a more disco-driven sound. On “Obiaa!,” his new album, he sings some new songs — many with messages of guidance for the children of the social-media age — and revisits old material. “Yamona” was a dance floor hit for Thomas in 1980; here his Kwashibu Area Band ditches the original version’s synthesizer, and takes some of the pressure off the bass drum, but the lush corps of percussion, horns and guitar ensure that none of the original’s energy is lost inside the new sound. GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO

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