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Milton Nascimento and Esperanza Spalding: Milton + Esperanza review – a quixotic double act
The veteran Brazilian singer and US composer-musician’s contrasting vocal styles captivate on an album that also features Paul Simon and Dianne Reeves
It’s a quixotic affair, built around versions of Nascimento classics such as Outubro and Saudade Dos Aviões Da Panair, on which the pair’s contrasting vocals combine and entrance. Spalding sings high and larkish, Nascimento low and rugged (his days of soaring are done) and invariably with a poetic, nostalgic tinge. Nothing can save Michael Jackson’s Earth Song from empty pomposity, not even Dianne Reeves singing lead, while their version of the Beatles’ A Day in the Life is upbeat and, under tropical skies, plain odd.
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