Episode 26 - Esperanza Spalding
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2016
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Multi-hyphenate jazz star Esperanza Spalding stops by Talk Easy to talk about her career, being an inconsistent person, developing that into creative energy, and the artistic value of being attentive to others. See Esperanza Spalding on tour: http://www.esperanzaspalding.com/tour/ Music for the show provided by @Vanilla. Original illustrations by Krishna Shenoi: http://krishnabalashenoi.com/. Learn more about the show at http://talkeasypod.com
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:09.0 | Hey, this is Sam. |
| 0:10.0 | If you enjoy our interviews with writers and artists on Talk Easy, then I'd recommend checking |
| 0:14.8 | out the podcast Missing Pages. Hosted by acclaimed literary critic and author Beth Ann Patrick, |
| 0:21.5 | Missing Pages investigates the biggest hot button topics in the book world today |
| 0:26.4 | with the help of special guests like New York Times Best-Selling author Jody Pekle |
| 0:31.3 | and publisher weeklies Jim Miliet. |
| 0:33.8 | Produced by the people at the Podglamaret, |
| 0:36.1 | Missing Pages explores everything from the insta frame of Colleen Hoover |
| 0:40.3 | to the rise of book bands across America to the lucrative culture of non-fiction ghost writing. |
| 0:46.0 | As both the Washington Post and the Guardian praise, |
| 0:49.0 | missing pages is a must listen. |
| 0:52.0 | So if you'd like to check it out, you can follow missing pages on |
| 0:55.0 | Apple Podcast or wherever you like to listen. Oh, Hey everyone. Welcome to Talk Easy. A weekly podcast of long-form conversations with the people shaping our culture today. |
| 1:27.0 | I'm San Fregoso. Thank you for being here. |
| 1:30.0 | This week on the program we have multi-hiphinate music virtuoso Esperanza Spalding. |
| 1:36.2 | Spalding was born in Portland, Oregon, 1984. |
| 1:40.6 | At an early age, there were two certainties. |
| 1:44.0 | One, she would be moving from place to place with her single mother, and two, wherever their journey |
| 1:50.0 | took them, she would be playing music. The standard bio for Esperanza is that at |
| 1:55.7 | age four she reproduced Beethoven by ear on her mother's piano and by age five |
| 2:00.6 | she was playing violin in the Chamber Music Society of Oregon. |
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