Bassist, vocalist and composer Esperanza Spalding first met choreographer Alonzo King during San Francisco Symphony's 2021-22 ...

From the first time she heard "Native Dancer," the collaborative record between American jazz giant Wayne Shorter and Brazilian legend Milton Nascimento, esperanza splading dreamed of collaborating ...

Berklee College of Music alumni have collectively won more than 300 Grammys so far. Two of those previous winners, esperanza spalding and Jett Galindo, are up for awards again at this year’s Grammys.

A decade into the 21st century, Esperanza Spalding--the bassist, vocalist and composer who first appeared on the jazz scene in 2008--takes a contemporary approach to this once universal form of ...

It was esperanza spalding’s longtime dream to make music with Milton Nascimento. The bassist was a student at Berklee College of Music when she first became a fan of the Brazilian singer-songwriter. A ...

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 ...

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"Little Fly," a quiet and melodic piece in which Esperanza sets a poem by William Blake to music. Throughout the piece, Esperanza's vocals merge seamlessly with her own bass as well as the string trio ...