Esperanza Spalding has announced a new album. Songwrights Apothecary Lab is out September 24 via Concord. The LP includes 12 pieces of music, created and recorded over the past several months in ...

*Singer-musician Esperanza Spalding has announced that she will write and record her next album for all the world to see – literally. The Grammy-award-winning singer-songwriter and jazz bassist will ...

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 ...

At this moment, Esperanza Spalding is chipping away at her new album, Exposure, and doing it in the most transparent way possible: a liv stream. For the next, 75 hours and change, Spalding, her ...

With a vibrant new recording and an upcoming tour, esperanza spalding is adding to an already distinguished resume. The 38-year-old composer, bassist, singer, teacher and Grammy Award winner – who ...

Shabaka Hutchings has announced his debut full-length album as Shabaka, Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace, following 2022’s Afrikan Culture EP. It arrives April 12 via Impulse! (pre-order).

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 ...

After a surprising Best New Artist win at the 2011 Grammy Awards and her recent turn in the Academy Awards band, it's fair to say there are probably greater expectations for Esperanza Spalding's ...

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 ...