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Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding - Milton + esperanza (2024)

Posted By: delpotro

Date: 7 Sep 2024 10:53:18

Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding - Milton + esperanza (2024)
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Vocal Jazz, MPB | Label: Concord Records

Milton + esperanza – a new album by Brazilian legend Milton Nascimento and decorated musician/composer esperanza spalding – will be released August 9 on Concord Records. Recorded in Brazil over the course of 2023, Milton + esperanza is a dream-come-true collaboration and musical representation of a friendship that was first kindled nearly 15 years ago. The album features 16 tracks that celebrate and reimagine five of Nascimento’s beloved classics, newly written originals by spalding, and fascinating interpretations of The Beatles’ “A Day In The Life” and Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song” among other works that lovingly explore the music of Brazil and far beyond. Special guest appearances include Paul Simon, Dianne Reeves, Lianne La Havas, Maria Gadú, Tim Bernardes, Carolina Shorter, Shabaka Hutchings and more. Milton + esperanza sparkles with duets between these two iconic voices, exquisite musicianship and what spalding identifies as a central theme of the album: the importance of younger generations creating with, learning from, and building new worlds with elders.

Milton Nascimento is a once-in-a-generation talent, the pride of Brazil and beloved across the globe. The Brazilian pop vocalist Elis Regina once declared that “if God had a voice, it would be Milton’s.” Nascimento began making records in the late ‘60s and was immediately recognized as an evocative lyricist—his subject matter encompasses protest songs and the natural world; songs of friendship, love, and racial harmony—with the brilliant ability to create unpredictable melodies, textures, and harmonics.

Nascimento’s music has influenced generations of talents; including a young spalding, who first heard his music while hosting a dinner party with Brazilian friends. One of her guests put on Native Dancer, Nascimento’s 1975 collaboration with saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter. “I get chills even thinking about it,” she says. It was a life-changing moment: “Ninety percent of things I write, I’m thinking of him. I’m thinking of his voice. I’m imagining singing it with him. He’s a very present part of my creative imagination.”

A dream that spalding never would have expected to come true, they met in Brazil and a friendship was formed (thanks in part to an introduction made by Herbie Hancock). Their first collaboration would be on spalding’s 2010 release Chamber Music Society, with Nascimento singing on “Apple Blossom.”

Milton + esperanza was made throughout 2023 and is produced, arranged and executive produced by spalding. Though some work was done in the States, much of the recording happened in Rio; authenticity and connection are crucial to the project. It features spalding’s core band of Matthew Stevens (guitar), Justin Tyson and Eric Doob (drums), Leo Genovese (piano), Corey D. King (vocals, synths), and several Brazilian musicians, including Orquestra Ouro Preto, percussionists Kainã Do Jêje and Ronaldinho Silva, and Lula Galvão and Guinga on guitar.

“Outubro,” originally from 1969 and released on Courage, is the oldest song of Nascimento’s on Milton + esperanza, and one of his most emotionally forceful. A truly soaring duet, it showcases just how dynamic the voices of Nascimento and spalding are as they swirl together. “Cais” is another towering entry in Nascimento’s catalog, featured on his 1972 double album Clube Da Esquina. Synthesizing the kaleidoscopic pop ambitions of the Beatles, the exploratory jazz of John Coltrane and Miles Davis, Western classical, and Indigenous Brazilian music, Clube Da Esquina is the kind of masterpiece that music lovers pass amongst themselves. It was awarded a 9.5 by Pitchfork in one of their coveted Sunday Reviews in 2018, deemed “one of the most ambitious albums in Brazilian history.”

spalding originals on the album include the exuberant “Wings for the Thought Bird” and “Get It By Now,” fresh additions to her ever-evolving catalog of dextrous work that both challenges and delights. Mystic interludes capture Nascimento and spalding in conversation, and on the opening track, sharing a deep joyful laugh that sets the tone for this celebratory album. It concludes with an expansive 9-minute take on Wayne Shorter’s “When You Dream,” from his 1985 release Atlantis. Featuring his wife Carolina Shorter, it’s a powerful and emotional bookend to a project that sought inspiration in connecting with our elders, as well as a way to honor Shorter, spalding’s mentor and collaborator who passed away in 2021.

Milton + esperanza is spalding’s first new album release since 2021’s songwrights apothecary lab, which along with 2019’s 12 Little Spells, both won GRAMMY Awards (Best Jazz Vocal Album). Last year spalding released a protest song entitled “Não Ao Marco Temporal” that was recorded in Rio and addresses the Temporal Framework, an initiative in Brazil that threatens Indigenous Brazilians’ land rights and poses a major risk to the Amazon rainforest. A 5-time GRAMMY winner and 11-time nominee, spalding has previously released 8 full length albums and in addition to working with her heroes including Nascimento and Shorter, she has collaborated with Q-Tip, Janelle Monae, Robert Glasper, Terri Lyne Carrington and many others. As a composer her credits include writing the libretto for the opera Iphigenia with Wayne Shorter, which premiered in 2021. She is also a philanthropist and advocate, and is currently working to create a BIPOC artist sanctuary in her hometown of Portland, OR.

AllMusic Review by Matt Collar
Esperanza Spalding and Milton Nascimento mark their 15-year friendship on their sublime 2024 collaboration Milton + Esperanza. Spalding, an acclaimed singer and bassist, was first introduced to Nascimento by Herbie Hancock when she was visiting Brazil in the 2000s. She had long appreciated the Brazilian legend's work, steeped as it is in folk, jazz, and the homegrown MPB that he helped to define in the '60s and '70s. Out of their initial meeting came Nascimento's guest appearance on Spalding's Grammy-winning album Chamber Music Society in 2010. Musically, Spalding has long evinced the influence of artists like Stevie Wonder and Wayne Shorter. Both of those artists also serve as comparable touchstones for Nascimento, who famously collaborated with Shorter on their classic 1974 album Native Dancer. Similarly here, Spalding and Nascimento are kindred musical spirits, dueting on almost every track; her bright vocal smile a perfect foil for Nascimento's hushed baritone; one that's only gained subtle textures over the decades. 81 years old at the time of recording, Nascimento had already embarked on a farewell tour when he decided to join Spalding in the studio, and their work together often feels like a celebration of his life. Produced by Spalding, the album features potent instrumental backing from her group with guitarist Matthew Stevens, pianist Leo Genovese, singer and keyboardist Corey King, and drummers Justin Tyson and Eric Doob. There are also vibrant contributions by singer/flutist Elena Pinderhughes, singer Lianne La Havas, Brazil's Orquestra Ouro Preto, percussionists Kainã Do Jêje and Ronaldinho Silva, and guitarists Lula Galvão and Guinga, among others. We get ebullient readings of fan favorite Nascimento songs like "Outboro" and "Cais." Spalding also contributes "Wings for the Thought Bird" and "Get It by Now," ambitiously melodic and poetic Baroque jazz-pop songs that nicely evoke the sun-baked and far-eyed lyricism of Nascimento's classic albums. Adding to this sense of warm appreciation are a handful of guests, including Paul Simon who jumps on board for a heartfelt duet with Nascimento on "Um Vento Passou," singer Dianne Reeves on a bittersweet cover of the Beatles' "A Day in the Life," and Carolina Shorter (Wayne Shorter's widow), who joins in on a lyrical and poignant nine-minute rendition of "When You Dream" off Native Dancer. At the center of all this are Nascimento and Spalding, whose smiling interplay helps make Milton + Esperanza feel like both a capstone to a monumental career and continuation of a musical legacy.

Tracklist:
01 - the music was there
02 - Cais
03 - Late September
04 - Outubro
05 - A Day in the Life
06 - Interlude for Saci
07 - Saci
08 - Wings for the Thought Bird
09 - The Way You Are
10 - Earth Song
11 - Morro Velho
12 - Saudade Dos Aviões Da Panair (Conversando No Bar)
13 - Um Vento Passou (para Paul Simon)
14 - Get It By Now
15 - outro planeta
16 - When You Dream

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