Esperanza Spalding is simply too great a talent to ignore.

Esperanza Spalding shares William Blake's "Fly", strolls with Stevie Wonder through Johnny Mercer's "Midnight Sun" and walks in Wayner Shorter's "Footprints", all the while proving that she is simply too great a talent to ignore. 

This piece sets music to the William Blake poem, The Fly.

The Fly by William Blake (1757-1827)

Little fly,  Thy summer’s play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath, And the want Of thought is death, Then am I A happy fly, If I live, Or if I die. Stevie Wonder joins Esperanza in the Midnight Sun  Your lips were like a red ruby chalice warmer than a summer night The clouds were like an alabaster palace rising to a snowy height Each star its own aurora borealis Suddenly you held me tight I could see the Midnight Sun. Footprints with Wayne Shorter