Bassist, singer and composer Esperanza Spalding is a jazz wunderkind. After initially proving her chops with scat vocals and walking bass line, she steadily added punctuations of voices on top of ...

Esperanza Spalding ... leaving the windows open for influences outside jazz,” Spalding says. Ultimately, she adds, she aspires to “create an invitation to explore the music for a larger ...

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Brazilian music legend Milton Nascimento and jazz supernova esperanza spalding discuss “dancing together” to create their ...

Grammy-winning jazz artist Esperanza Spalding publicly challenged the 67th Annual Grammy Awards' treatment of Brazilian music ...

Spalding attended the 67th annual Grammy Awards with the 82-year-old artist as her date. Their project Milton + esperanza ...

Grammy-winning jazz artists Esperanza Spalding and Miguel Zenón are among six recipients of the 2024 Doris Duke Artist Awards. This honor comes with a significant monetary reward. Each of the six ...

Esperanza Spalding is an award-winning American jazz singer, bassist and song writer. I Know You Know features on her album Esperanza, which was released in 2008. Spalding performed this song in ...

It serves as the opening song on the jazz musician’s Possession EP, which features further contributions from woods’ Armand Hammer bandmate, Elucid, Esperanza Spalding, South African jazz ...