We almost never post Tiny Desk (home) concerts anymore. But to have the glorious Brazilian musical icon Milton Nascimento with his gifted friend and collaborator, esperanza spalding, be an exception ...

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 ...

As quickly as 25-year-old Esperanza Spalding http://www.esperanzaspalding.com/ was embraced as a promising new jazz talent, there was backlash. Spalding has been ...

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 ...

“I got it into my head I could help bring together a group of people, funding and support he needed to make [this] happen," Esperanza Spalding said of her collaboration with Wayne Shorter on ...

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