Esperanza Spalding recently collaborated with Brazilian musician Milton Nascimento for a Tiny Desk (home) concert recorded in Nascimento’s living room in Rio de Janeiro. Nascimento, 81, who rarely travels due to health concerns, teamed up with Spalding to perform music from their new album, Milton + esperanza.
Despite announcing his retirement in 2022, Nascimento decided to work with Spalding on this project. Nascimento’s extensive career spans more than six decades, during which he has released over 40 albums. Spalding, speaking with WRTI’s Nate Chinen, expressed the depth of Nascimento’s influence: “It’s not a sound, it’s a lived thing that does travel on the frequencies. We don’t even have the words to describe what we’re actually picking up.”
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