It was in July 2007, while at the Montreal Jazz Festival, that Esperanza Spalding bought her first electric bass. What surprised her was not so much the sound it provided but the mobility. “The ...

Esperanza Spalding is a force of nature—a bass player and singer who rose to stardom when she became the first jazz performer to win a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2011. Her newest solo album ...

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 ...

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 ...

We've invited Spalding to answer questions about BASE jumping, second base and Ace of Base. Originally broadcast March 26, 2016. BILL KURTIS: From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ...

We've invited Spalding to answer questions about BASE jumping, second base and Ace of Base. Originally broadcast March 26, 2016. BILL KURTIS: If we've failed to prove to you that 2016 wasn't so bad, ...