Esperanza Spalding: Unconditional Love, NPR MUSIC FRONT ROW

Fulfilling the performanceart vision of her spiritmuse Emily, Esperanza Spalding played the music of her forthcoming album Emily s D+Evolution in concert at BRIC House in Brooklyn, N. Y. on Thursday, March 3. WFUV and NPR Music presented a live video webstream of the performance as part of the First Listen Live series. Emily s D+Evolution marks a new sound for Spalding. Here, she picks up the electric bass (and occasionally the piano) and surrounds herself with a power trio of electric guitar and drums