esperanza spalding and Milton Nascimento
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Set Checklist
- “Outubro”
- “Saudade Dos Aviões Da Panair”
- “Cais”
- “When You Dream”
Grammy-winning jazz artist esperanza spalding says she will get chills when she thinks in regards to the first time she heard the voice of Milton Nascimento, performed over the stereo at a cocktail party.
She was a scholar at Berklee Faculty of Music, and Nascimento, a Brazilian singer-songwriter many many years her senior, grew to become an inspiration to her. The 2 ultimately grew to become buddies, performing with one another on considered one of spalding’s albums, on stage and at Nascimento’s residence in Brazil.
It’s Nascimento’s residence in Rio de Janeiro the place additionally they recorded a lot of their new collaborative album, Milton + esperanza, within the room the place the 81-year-old Nascimento enjoys watching tv. The album is a mixture of new songs, covers of different artists and songs from Nascimento’s catalog. It additionally options visitor appearances from artists like Paul Simon, Lianne La Havas and Shabaka Hutchings.
In as we speak’s session, you may hear spalding and Nascimento carry out songs from that album in an unique mini-concert recorded stay in Brazil for World Cafe.
This episode of World Cafe was produced by Will Loftus and produced for the net by Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson.
