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    August Greene: Tiny Desk Concert

    August Greene, Common's new trio with Robert Glasper and Karriem Riggins, brought some special guest vocalists to the Tiny Desk.
    by Abby O'Neill Feb 21, 2018 2 minutes
    August Green performs a Tiny Desk Concert on Feb. 12, 2018 (Eslah Attar/NPR).

    August Greene, the collaborative effort of Common, Robert Glasper and Karriem Riggins, was born at the White House in 2016 during . It was during that unprecedented performance that the then-untitled ensemble premiered the powerful "Letter to the Free," an original song for Ava DuVernay's Netflix

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