{"id":9937,"date":"2012-03-20T10:11:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T18:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=9937"},"modified":"2012-03-20T10:13:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T18:13:02","slug":"hope-for-the-jazzers-esperanza-spalding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-03\/hope-for-the-jazzers-esperanza-spalding\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope For the Jazzers–Esperanza Spalding"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last night Esperanza Spalding<\/strong><\/a> performed Radio Song<\/strong><\/em> off of her new album, Radio Music Society<\/strong>, on the Letterman Show<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 Radio Music Society<\/strong> was released today and bodes well for fans of crossover jazz, as we see a resurgence in new players of the genre.\u00a0 Somehow Spalding manages to convey the spirits of both Wayne<\/strong> (Shorter) and Wonder<\/strong> (Stevie) on the new album.\u00a0 The New York Times<\/strong> had a great feature article on her last week, which you can read HERE<\/a>.\u00a0 Check out her performance below.\u00a0 Once again, Dave<\/strong> and Paul<\/strong> are right on with their fervent praise.<\/p>\n

Spalding has this to say about Radio Song<\/em><\/strong> on her website: “This song speaks to an experience we\u2019ve all had at one time or another: when for whatever reason, you turn on the radio and a fragment of a song just grabs you, everything in the world seems to stop, and you sit mesmerized and uplifted by the music. That moment of \u201cbeing touched\u201d from the radio is a testament to the power of song, and it\u2019s at that magical moment when an artist \u2013 even someone we know nothing about \u2013 truly connects with their equally unknown listener.”<\/p>\n

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Last night Esperanza Spalding performed Radio Song off of her new album, Radio Music Society, on the Letterman Show.\u00a0\u00a0 Radio Music Society was released today and bodes well for fans of crossover jazz, as we see a resurgence in new players of the genre.\u00a0 Somehow Spalding manages to convey the spirits of both Wayne (Shorter) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t