In one of the biggest upsets in Grammy history, jazz bassist and vocalist Esperanza Spalding won best new artist at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 13, 2011. She came out on top in a strong ...

Jarrell Hosley, the organizer of Sunday’s free concert in Southeast Portland’s Ventura Park, lights up when talking about headliner Esperanza Spalding, a five-time Grammy award-winning artist who has ...

Step by step, note by note, and spell by spell, esperanza spalding seeks to break down the walls that keep music contained in clubs and concert halls. The bassist, composer and vocalist won her fifth ...

Five-time Grammy award-winning jazz musician Esperanza Spalding, a professor of the practice in Harvard’s Music Department, is set to depart the ivy league university, citing different priorities over ...

When legendary Brazilian singer-songwriter Milton Nascimento celebrated a lifetime in music with his 2022 farewell tour, it would have been safe to assume that he would also retire from the recording ...

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Esperanza Spalding won her fifth Grammy this year for best jazz vocal album for Songwrights Apothecary Lab. But since Spalding moved back to her hometown of Portland during the pandemic, she’s been ...

Drake sends shots at the two Grammy-winning singers on his new album, “For All the Dogs,” released on Friday. Drake’s new album, “For All the Dogs,” features disses at numerous people. Two of them are ...

When jazz saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter was a New York University student in the ’50s, he decided to write an opera inspired in part by the Marlon Brando movie “The Wild One.” “It was about a ...

It’s perfectly fitting that the impossible-to-peg Esperanza Spalding won the 2021 Richard Brettell Award in the Arts. The honor, awarded every two years by the University of Texas at Dallas, goes to ...

Norah Jones, Esperanza Spalding, and Angelique Kidjo’s Remain in Light are among the artists set to perform the 2022 Newport Jazz Festival, which takes place at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode ...