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Esperanza Spalding: The Intimate Balance
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
To celebrate Esperanza Spalding's Grammy award win as “Best New Artist," we're rerunning this September 2010 interview. Enjoy!Fans of classical music and jazz have argued about music for years. If Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Duke Ellington had ever met, they may have looked at each other in awe--right before debating about bars and notes ...
53rd Jazz Grammy Winners Announced
= winner 4. Best New Artist Esperanza Spalding Justin Bieber Drake Florence & The Machine Mumford & Sons 44. Best Contemporary Jazz Album For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks. The Stanley Clarke Band The Stanley Clarke Band ...
Esperanza Spalding Smashes Grammy Precedent
The young bassist, composer and vocalist Esperanza Spalding last night shattered decades of pop and rock dominance of the Grammys to become the first jazz musician ever to be named best new artist. She edged out the teen idol Justin Bieber and three other pop performers. Spalding's Chamber Music Society CD broke through several categories in ...
Kristin Korb / Cosmologic with Anthony Davis at Conrad Prebys Recital Hall in San Diego
by Robert Bush
Kristin Korb / Cosmologic with special guest Anthony DavisConrad Prebys Recital Hall, UCSDSan Diego, CAJanuary 22, 2011 UCSD's internationally heralded music department hosted concerts by returning alumni and faculty in a weeklong celebration of the program's many successes. Saturday night's affair featured singer/double-bassist Kristin Korb playing solo and the wonderful, ...
Esperanza Spalding to perform at the GRAMMY Awards
Best New Artist GRAMMY nominee Esperanza Spalding will perform on the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards. The show will take place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California from 5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, February 13, 2011. The GRAMMY Awards will be broadcast live on the CBS Television Network from 8-11:30 p.m. ET/PT. Esperanza ...
Esperanza Spalding up for Best New Artist Grammy, Co-Host Pre-Telecast Show
Esperanza Spalding, one of the leading lights in jazz today with two critically acclaimed CDs since 2008, surprisingly, is not among the nominees in any of the jazz categories of the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday February 13, 2011 at the Staple Centre, Los Angeles, California. Instead, Spalding, who will co-host the Grammy pre-telecast show ...
A Grammy Twist That's Good for Jazz
Bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding has taken the jazz world by storm with her talent and youthful enthusiasm. That's not a bad thing. A smattering of White House jazz gigs and performing at President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize concert were a help. So, too, will be her high profile at the 53rd annual GRAMMY Awards in ...
Roxy Coss: Roxy Coss
by Wilbert Sostre
With the exception of a few instrumentalists like pianist Mary Lou Williams, most women in the so called golden era of jazz were singers. That situation has changed in the last few years, with more and more extraordinaire female musicians entering the jazz scene. Bassist Esperanza Spalding, pianist Hiromi, drummer Cindy Blackman and saxophonist/clarinetist Anat Cohen ...
Esperanza Spalding stands tall, hair and all
NEW YORK—When Esperanza Spalding plays her upright bass, the bulky instrument extends over her unruly mass of curls by half a foot as she bobs and weaves to complex jazz rhythms. The pairing's a visual mismatch, but there's no doubt she's in comm “Maybe it looks like I'm working hard, but I'm pretty relaxed," says the ...
Paquito D'Rivera: Jazz at the Heart
by R.J. DeLuke
There is almost nothing Paquito D'Rivera hasn't accomplished since his arrival on the U.S. jazz scene in the early 1980s, when the young Cuban arrived from Spain--the first spot he hid when he defected from his home nation and its Communist rule that denied personal freedoms and forced musicians playing jazz to call it something else ...
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