esperanza spalding first heard Milton Nascimento’s music as a grad student at Berklee. “Some Brazilian friends were over for dinner, and they were so scandalized that I didn’t know who he was,” she ...

More than 20 years ago, Esperanza Spalding was an undergraduate at Boston’s Berklee College of Music hosting a dinner party. She had begun playing bass just a few years earlier. It would be roughly a ...

In a collaborative work, the two artists find a fusion of old and new that charts a path forward for jazz and pop’s future. Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, Joni Mitchell and Brandi Carlile, Loretta Lynn ...

Esperanza Spalding began her Milwaukee concert Tuesday with silence. A long silence. For some, perhaps, an awkward silence. This polite crowd, staring at the empty stage in the dark, remained hushed.