John Legend: Tiny Desk ( Home) Concert

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit strippeddown sets, an intimate setting just a different space. August 3, 2020, Bob Boilen John Legend fully embraced the spirit of the Tiny Desk for his quarantine concert. He filmed this foursong performance in an office, in this case the Los Angeles office of his management company Friends At Work. He endearingly refers to his piano as his tiny He flew his sevenpiece band out from Philadelphia to fill that office with utter joy. They kick off the set with Ooh Laa, a song John calls doowop meets trap it s also the leadoff track to his summer album, Bigger Love. In fact, all of the songs filmed on this day are from Bigger Love, including Conversations in the Dark, which John says is a good song for babies to dance to you might want to get married to it, too, if you re so