{"id":702,"date":"2010-12-31T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2010\/12\/better-than-bieber.html"},"modified":"2010-12-31T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T08:00:00","slug":"better-than-bieber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2010\/12\/better-than-bieber.html","title":{"rendered":"Better than Bieber?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nominated alongside the likes of Drake and Justin Bieber is jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding for a Grammy in the Best New Artist category. &nbsp;The odds are stacked against her but I&#8217;m holding out hope that this true talent and artist will rise to the top. &nbsp;Watch\/listen to the video below of Esperanza at the White House singing &#8220;Tell Him&#8221; while playing the double bass.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><object width=\"480\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/all\/modules\/swftools\/shared\/flash_media_player\/player5x2.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"282828\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"config=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/xml\/video\/6000\/config.xml&amp;path_to_plugins=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/modules\/wh_multimedia\/wh_jwplayer\/plugins&amp;path_to_player=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/all\/modules\/swftools\/shared\/flash_media_player\/player5x2.swf\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/all\/modules\/swftools\/shared\/flash_media_player\/player5x2.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" flashvars=\"config=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/xml\/video\/6000\/config.xml&amp;path_to_plugins=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/modules\/wh_multimedia\/wh_jwplayer\/plugins&amp;path_to_player=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/all\/modules\/swftools\/shared\/flash_media_player\/player5x2.swf&amp;share_url=http:\/\/jkameroncarter.com\/?p=787\"><\/object>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Recently, J. Kameron Carter of the Divinity School at Duke University made his case for not only for a Grammy for Spalding but for how theologians (which in my opinion, means all of us!) have something to learn from this artist. (<a href=\"http:\/\/jkameroncarter.com\/?p=787\">Read his post here<\/a>)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esperanzaspalding.com\/\">Esperanza Spalding&#8217;s website<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nominated alongside the likes of Drake and Justin Bieber is jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding for a Grammy in the Best New Artist category. &nbsp;The odds are stacked against her but I&#8217;m holding out hope that this true talent and artist will rise to the top. &nbsp;Watch\/listen to the video below of Esperanza at the White&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-music-movies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Better than Bieber? 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