I'm going to keep this short because every minute you're reading this is a minute you could be watching ESPERANZA SPALDING create her next album. Likewise for me and every minute I'm writing this. The jazz singer/bassist turned on the cameras at 9 am PT Tuesday for a 77-hour marathon FACEBOOK feed, during which she's writing and recording a 10-song album from scratch. "Testing the theory that creations are at their most powerful the moment they're released." A rock-solid theory, by the way. Science. Raw, unedited and streaming in real time, it's as good a documentary of the process of making music as I've ever seen (if all 77 hours aren't archived and preserved exactly as is, it will be a crime). Bantering and building a rapport with engineer FERNANDO LODEIRO, who's the co-star of this documentary. (They've worked together before, but you have to build and rebuild that rapport every time.) Reaching for words and melodies. Humming lines over and over in search of the perfect notes and the chords to support them. Writing everything down before she forgets. Is that an F? Yes it is. Asking Lodeiro to play it back "a little to the left," which is how you literally describe rewinding in a visual recording medium like PRO TOOLS. Lodeiro counting bars and copying-and-pasting. Spalding settling on a melodic line and then "let's try to build that; let's try to put some opening in the clouds." Bouncing ideas and notes and keys off ANDREW BIRD, who's writing a stunning duet with her as I write—please release this song, like, today—and who would prefer it not be in D-flat, and who's fighting with a faulty tube in his FENDER amp, Spalding watching the clock, "OK we really need to start going," before everyone agrees to forget the amp and play acoustic, and they do, and it's beautiful, but they still have to work on the vocal blend and hey, "You wanna take a stab at some lyrics? I'm gonna eat something," and now I'm watching the clock, they've been at it a few hours, it's just one song, beautiful as it is, is everything going to get done in 77 hours? I'll be watching... BEYONCÉ, STEVIE and SCOOTER BRAUN get political at Hand in Hand telethon, help raise more than $14 million... SINÉAD O'CONNOR to DR. PHIL on the reaction to her infamous SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE appearance: "Silence everywhere. It was fantastic." But then: "About 10 years after that that I don't remember because that's when it became acceptable and it became the norm that I was treated... like I was an absolutely insane crazy person." MusicSET: "Sinéad O'Connor's Universal Truths"... RIP VIRGIL HOWE.