Esperanza Spalding

10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

2-LP SET PRESSED ON 180 GRAM VINYL AT RTI

The Grammy-winning fourth album by Esperanza Spalding, Radio Music Society, will be released in a tenth anniversary edition by Craft Recordings on December 2. Now available for pre-order, it will be available as a 2LP set on 180 gram vinyl at RTI, and in hi-res digital audio.

The 2012 set, executive-produced by Q-Tip, earned the singer, songwriter, and bassist the second and third of her five Grammys to date at the 2013 ceremony, as Best Jazz Vocal Album and, for “City of Roses,” Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s). Spalding had memorably won the Best New Artist title at the 2011 Grammy Awards, and has gone to subsequent recognition for 12 Little Spells and Songwrights Apothecary Lab, both of which also won Best Jazz Album.

Radio Music Society included the singles “Black Gold” and “Radio Song” and was created with a stellar cast including pianist Leo Genovese, drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, and tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano, as well as vocalists Lalah Hathaway, Algebra Blessett, Leni Stern, and Gretchen Parlato. Others in the cast included Darren Barrett (trumpet), guitarists Jef Lee Johnson and Lionel Loueke, and drummers Billy Hart and Jack DeJohnette.

The album debuted at No.10 on the Billboard 200 and No.1 on the Jazz chart, also hitting the Top 40 in Japan and countries across Europe. Accolades poured in from around the world, including from Germany’s Spiegel, the UK’s The Guardian, and Rolling Stone, who called Spalding “a dazzling player.”

TRACKS:

• LP ONE

• A1. Radio Song
• A2. Cinnamon Tree
• A3. Crowned & Kissed

• B1. Land Of The Free
• B2. Black Gold (featuring – Algebra Blessett, Lionel Loueke)
• B3. I Can’t Help It (featuring – Joe Lovano)
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• LP TWO

• C1. Hold On Me
• C2. Vague Suspicions
• C3. Endangered Species (featuring – Lalah Hathaway)

• D1. Let Her
• D2. City of Roses
• D3. Smile Like That