Results for "Esperanza Spalding"

Esperanza Spalding: Buffalo, NY, April 18, 2012

by Kelly E Schultz
April 29, 2012

Esperanza Spalding Radio Music SocietyUniversity of Buffalo Center for The Arts/ Esperanza SpauldingBuffalo, NYApril 18, 2012It's always a good day when jazz comes to Buffalo, NY. It's a great day when a Grammy Award-winning jazz artist performs for an intimate crowd at University at Buffalo's Center of the Performing Arts.

Esperanza Spalding “Radio Music Society” To Headline At Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival On Saturday June 23 Tickets On Sale Friday April 13th

April 11, 2012

Rochester, NY: Esperanza Spalding made her debut at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival in 2007 performing in the Club Pass Series at Max of Eastman Place. Five years later, the GRAMMY Award-winning Best New Artist will headline at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre on Saturday June 23 at 8 p.m. The young bassist/vocalist/composer was one ...

AccuJazz Internet Radio Launches New Orleans Jazz Fest Channel

April 5, 2012

The onset of warmer weather can mean only one thing: music festival season is nigh! There may be other joys that Summer brings, but for the folks at AccuJazz Internet Radio it's all about savoring great music in the great outdoors. AccuJazz has a tradition of creating channels dedicated to the jazz festivals they’re most excited ...

Enough With The Search For A "Jazz Savior"

April 4, 2012

Every so often, a barrage of articles and blog posts come out claiming that jazz has found the musician or musicians that are going to “save” jazz. More often than not, these musicians are achieving some current commercial success and popularity among a broad audience outside of the typical “jazz head” community. The newest jazz savior? ...

Esperanza Spalding: Radio Music Society

by Mark F. Turner
March 31, 2012

If there's to be an unofficial ambassador for contemporary jazz then Esperanza Spalding could fit the bill nicely. The young bassist, singer, and composer brings a fresh exuberance marked by prodigious talent; honoring those who have paved the way, yet seeking to pursue her own path. Whether receiving the 2011 Grammy for “Best New Artist" or ...

Esperanza Spalding: Radio Music Society

by Jeff Winbush
March 29, 2012

When you've been invited to perform for the President of the United States, turned heads as the bass-playing beauty in the Academy Awards house band, toured with Prince and beat out teen dream Justin Bieber for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, you're having a very good run in the spotlight--and it could turn your ...

Paris, New Orleans and the UN General Assembly to celebrate International Jazz Day with UNESCO

March 24, 2012

Musicians and fans from all five continents will celebrate the first-ever International Jazz Day on 30 April. UNESCO proclaimed the Day during its General Conference late last year, to recognize jazz as a universal language of freedom and creativity. Festivities start at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 27 April with a series of master classes, round ...

Robert Glasper: Black Radio

by Eugene Holley, Jr.
March 10, 2012

Depending on your age, Houston-born pianist/composer Robert Glasper is--like trumpeters Christian Scott and Ambrose Akinmusire, and bassist/vocalist Esperanza Spalding-either the herald of a new world a-comin' when jazz musicians will be heard on pop radio on a regular basis, or he's a throwback to the golden age of the seventies, when jazz stars, from Herbie Hancock ...

Take Five With Kristina Morales

by AAJ Staff
March 8, 2012

Meet Kristina Morales: With an incandescent brilliance, rising star Kristina Morales' voice shines across the heart of the city of New Orleans with illuminating clarity and burns with heart-wrenching warmth. She electrifies and charms her audience with a vulnerable passion and is commended by musicians and audiences alike for her use of vocal instrumentation ...

Esperanza Spalding - Black Gold

Featuring the music of Esperanza Spalding
Duration: 6:48
February 26, 2012