"Voodoo" – D'Angelo
You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians
Peter Martin
4.9 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In light of D'Angelo's passing, we're replaying our episode on Voodoo from June 2025. This Grammy-winning, genre-defying album changed the sound of R&B, soul, and hip-hop forever. And it has seriously influenced the playing of so many musicians, including our own Adam Maness.
From Questlove’s behind-the-beat drumming to Roy Hargrove’s horn arrangements, Voodoo is packed with the kind of deep musicality that jazz musicians truly connect with.
Twenty-five years later, Voodoo still hits harder than many albums of its generation. We've heard from so many of you in the comments on Spotify and YouTube about what this album, and D'Angelo's music, means to you.
Tell us how D'Angelo has influenced you in the comments on Spotify or YouTube: https://youtu.be/AYqmFNF2s0U
Watch Open Studio perform D'Angelo's "Spanish Joint":
https://youtu.be/CG5yqmkj0G4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, folks, Adam here. |
| 0:01.8 | And Peter. |
| 0:02.9 | And in lieu of our regularly scheduled episode today, we are going to pay tribute to one of our favorite artists that we lost last week. |
| 0:12.1 | Yes. |
| 0:12.9 | As I'm sure most of you know by now, DeAngelo, Mr. Michael Archer, passed along just a few days ago. |
| 0:22.2 | I guess it'll be about a week by the time, depending on when you hear this. |
| 0:25.7 | And we've been a little bit of a loss. |
| 0:29.2 | It's been kind of overwhelming to see the music community, fellow musicians that work with DeAngelo, the fans, and really just sort of the |
| 0:39.1 | cultural zeitgeist of this country sort of rallying around this hole that's there now. |
| 0:44.9 | So we were a little bit, we've been talking, Adam and I, just a little bit unsure of what to do. |
| 0:49.9 | And so we've decided that we're just going to play an episode that we did relatively recently on his DeAngel's masterpiece, Voodoo, where we go in depth. |
| 1:01.3 | And it was one of the most joyous musical experiences I remember from this year. |
| 1:05.4 | For sure. |
| 1:05.9 | Getting to experience it with you, Adam, in real time as we died. |
| 1:09.9 | Did we dissect the record? We just enjoyed the record. We did a little bit of dissecting. It's one of the most influential albums. And DiAngelo, as for all of his albums, is one of the most influential artists of both of our lifetimes. Yeah. And yeah, like you said, there's this, there's this big hole in the community now. And I think everybody's kind of scrambling to find the right words, and there really are no right words. No, no. |
| 1:30.3 | There's an artist so incredible |
| 1:32.1 | at such a young age, way too young. Yeah. And we thought the best way to do that was just to replay |
| 1:38.9 | our joy. Right, right. And so of course, at the time that we've recorded the episode you're about to |
| 1:43.5 | hear now, we had no idea that DeAngelo was even ill and that he wasn't going to be with us. But I remember from just the comments and the feedback we got from this episode already, even before this tragedy of this last week, it was some of the most like emotionally connected communications I felt for the listeners. |
| 2:02.5 | For sure. |
| 2:03.5 | Like there's a bond that we all have. |
| 2:06.1 | And of course it's now even more pressing that he isn't with us anymore. |
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