There are many gifted singers in jazz today, and no shortage of accomplished acoustic bass players. But few jazz artists can be both. With her outsized afro and jangly earrings, Spalding recently ...

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 ...

The bass isn't featured front and center in too many jazz compositions. So what drew multi-instrumentalist Esperanza Spalding to the instrument when she was a teenager? "I would say spiritually or ...

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 ...

Esperanza Spalding found high school quite boring. One day while cutting class, Spalding, then 15, wandered into an empty band room, spotted an upright bass and, on a whim, began plucking it. The ...

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 ...

Esperanza Spalding is a force of nature—a bass player and singer who rose to stardom when she became the first jazz performer to win a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2011. Her newest solo album ...

Jeffrey Brown profiles Esperanza Spalding, the young jazz phenomenon who pulls double duty on stage by playing the bass and singing. The classically trained bassist has appeared at the White House and ...

Esperanza Spalding has been hailed by NPR as “the 21st Century’s jazz genius,” a fearless true believer in the transcendental properties of jazz who won the Best New Artist Grammy that everyone, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Esperanza Spalding is 34-years-old, but her resume reads like a musician’s twice her age: Grammy ...

There are many gifted jazz singers, and there's no shortage of accomplished acoustic bass players. But 23-year-old Esperanza Spalding's new album... Esperanza Spalding: Voice of the Bass Esperanza ...