Sometimes when you can’t find the right words to say what you are thinking or going through, you just play a song that says it for you. Music in the right hands can be a beautiful thing. The kind of music that is getting airplay today is quite frankly mostly trash. How many times can you say I got money, hoes and I pop bottles in the club before it gets old? But there are times when a serious artist with serious talent comes out and sings exactly what you want and need to hear. Esperanza Spalding, a 26 year old virtuoso bassist and vocalist  influenced by Ron Carter & Dave Holland, is one of them. She has talent, you can see in her performances that she sings from within and feels the music.

In her song “Little Fly” Spalding  sings the William Blake poem

To read more on Spalding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanza_Spalding