Ali Shaheed Muhammad is the hip-hop DJ, producer, and rapper you know best from his membership in A Tribe Called Quest. Adrian Younge is the multi-instrumentalist arranger and producer behind expansive, funk and Morricone-saturated sounds, both as a solo artist and backing up Ghostface Killah and Bilal, among others. They first collaborated on scoring and soundtracking Netflix’s dark superhero series Luke Cage. It was tight as shit. They finally came together again as the Midnight Hour and released a full-length eponymous LP last year, a fine fusion of cinematic funk, acid jazz, creamy soul, and R&B, treated with some hip-hop beat-hawking, fleshed out with brass and strings and woodwinds and guest singers. The album they recorded in February and released in April, The Midnight Hour Live at Linear Labs, provides a nice glimpse of what’s in store: a mix of high-class sophistication and down-low groove-making. by Leilani Polk