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New music from Carlos Jimenez, Nino Josele with Chick Corea plus Herbie Hancock
by Len Davis
New music from flautist Carlos Jimenez, Nino Josele with Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock with Hits and Rarities, Miles Davis from What it Is: Montreal 1983 and Melbourne guitarist Jack Pantazis with Because of Her. Playlist Carlos Jimenez Dreams of Brazil" from Woods (CJMartinete Musicl) 00:00 {Nino Josele-Chick Corea Galaxias" from Galaxias (Beatclap) 05:45 Herbie Hancock It's about That Time" from Hits and Rarities (UMG) 11.23 Miles Davis Code 3" from What it Is: Montreal 1983 (Columbia) 17:04 Lincoln ...
read moreEsperanza Spalding: Esperanza
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ha un nome che è una dichiarazione d'intenti: Esperanza. Ha bruciato le tappe di una carriera che a soli 24 anni può dirsi formidabile. Contrabbassista, insegnante di contrabbasso a 20 anni al Berklee College, ha suonato con Stanley Clarke, Pat Metheny e Joe Lovano, per citare i più grandi. Poi ha pensato di fare da sé. E per il suo esordio, Esperanza, non ha badato a fronzoli. La Heads Up le ha dato credito e speranza". Niño Josele, James Haddad, ...
read moreEsperanza Spalding: Esperanza
by Woodrow Wilkins
From a guest appearance on Stanley Clarke's The Toys of Men (Heads Up, 2007) to her self-titled debut, Esperanza Spalding is turning heads, and opening lots of ears. After an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, the host called the 23-year-old vocalist/bassist/composer the coolest guest" he'd ever had. Spalding is indeed cool, having enrolled at Berklee College of Music at 16, and ultimately becoming the institution's youngest professor in its history. She landed gigs with Patti ...
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by Ernest Barteldes
On this major label debut, bassist/vocalist Esperanza Spalding demonstrates plenty of eclecticism, taking on styles ranging from samba, hard-driving jazz and R&B, a risky combination in less confident hands. However, Spalding revels in the multiple directions without ever sounding pretentious. The Berklee College alum opens the disc singing in fluent Portuguese, with a small hint of an accent, on Ponta de Areia," a Milton Nascimento/Fernando Brandt composition originally featured on Wayne Shorter's Native Dancer and often covered ...
read moreEsperanza Spalding: Esperanza
by Jeff Winbush
For the purist who wants to know what all the excitement is about Esperanza Spalding, they can skip directly to track 11--"If That's True"--of her sophomore album Esperanza, where she works out on the acoustic bass in an all-out jam with Donald Harrison on alto saxophone and Ambrose Akinmusire on trumpet. It flat-out smokes, and showcases the Berklee-trained bassist as potentially one of the more promising young talents in jazz. First though, she's going to have to ...
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