If her 2006 debut Junjo announced the arrival of a major new jazz talent (virtuoso bassist and singer and gifted songwriter), then Radio Music Society six years later positioned Esperanza Spalding as a bona fide 21st century jazz superstar and one of the music's most brilliant and thoughtful synthesists. Blessed with good looks, charisma, style and a fierce intelligence as well as prodigious musical gifts, Spalding had a vision – to make an album that would ‘showcase jazz musicians in an accessible manner suitable for mainstream radio’, and her fourth LP Radio Music Society would be that record. It was.

Working with Leo Genovese and Terri Lyne Carrington, plus a vast array of stellar musicians (she was by 2012 of sufficient stature to get anyone she wanted to work with her), Spalding created a collection that took in soul, pop, gospel, big-band swing and hip-hop as well as jazz. Refreshingly heedless of the proscriptions of the jazz police, her eclectic vision was realised in tracks like ‘Radio Song’, ‘Black Gold’, the gorgeous ‘Cinammon Tree’ and a stunning interpretation of Wayne Shorter's ‘Endangered Species’; and rewarded with airplay, huge sales and armfuls of Grammys.

A decade on, RMS still sounds fresh (especially on this new RTI-pressed, George Horn-cut Craft edition); whether or not you approve of the results, Spalding's laudable ambition and vision, realised here in all its open-minded glory, is worthy of praise. Essential listening.