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The bassist and 2011 Grammy winner for Best New Artist explores the link between jazz and African-American identity on a new album. Esperanza Spalding: Jazz As 'Radio Music' These are good times for ...

Esperanza Spalding Radio Music Society is the last headliner to be announced for the festival's 11th edition, June 22-30. She joins previously announced headliners Norah Jones, Diana Krall, and Steve ...

When classically trained jazz artist Esperanza Spalding walked away with the 2011 Grammy Award for Best New Artist, she was already a media darling for her unique way with the string bass, thoughtful ...

Perhaps most famous for taking the Grammy for Best New Artist last year over Justin Bieber, Esperanza Spalding confirms in her new album, “Radio Music Society,” that it is her artistry as a musician ...

On March 20th, 2012, Heads Up International, a division of Concord Music Group, gives us Esperanza Spalding's latest release, Radio Music Society, her most diverse, ambitious and masterful recital yet ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Esperanza Spalding: Radio Music Society Tour on Wednesday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre, Center ...

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 ...

Fittingly, it all starts with a radio. The first notes of Esperanza Spalding’s album release tour aren’t notes at all—like a listener impatiently channel-searching, radio static gives way to her ...

American musician and songwriter Esperanza Spalding releases her fourth studio album on Heads Up International. Having been schooled in jazz in some of the best learning establishments in America, ...