It was in July 2007, while at the Montreal Jazz Festival, that Esperanza Spalding bought her first electric bass. What surprised her was not so much the sound it provided but the mobility. “The ...

1 of 10 — Chick Corea (piano) duets with Bill Frisell (guitar) for the first time. 2 of 10 — Chick Corea paid tribute to Bill Evans with his version of "Alice In Wonderland," with Esperanza Spalding ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Known for her virtuosic bass playing, singer, songwriter, and composer Esperanza Spalding made history in ...

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 ...

In today’s music world, Esperanza Spalding is an enigma. For one, the 24-year-old musical prodigy plays upright bass, quite the rarity for the male-dominated instrument.

Jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding is to perform at the Warner Theatre on January 26, 2025. Her concert will have two dancers performing. Esperanza, a Concord Records OMK artist with eight albums to her ...

(PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — Esperanza Spalding, the Grammy Award winner from Portland, sang and played bass at the Biamp Portland Jazz Festival in an event with Shabaka Hutchings, Friday, Feb. 23 at Newmark ...

It's not enough to make list after list. The Turning the Tables project seeks to suggest alternatives to the traditional popular music canon, and to do more than that, too: to stimulate conversation ...