Esperanza Spalding has announced a new collaborative album with heralded Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento. Recorded in Brazil last year, Milton + Esperanza is due out August 9 via Concord. They're ...

Jazz bassist, vocalist, and composer Esperanza Spalding has announced a new album, Songwrights Apothecary Lab, due September 24 via Concord Records (pre-order). Here’s some background on the album, ...

At the heart of Esperanza Spalding's new album, Songwrights Apothecary Lab (S.A.L.), is a question: "What do you need a song for?" In pursuit of answers, Spalding, a Grammy-winning jazz singer and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Known for her virtuosic bass playing, singer, songwriter, and composer Esperanza Spalding made history in 2011 when she became the ...

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 ...

"Black Gold," a song about "African American heritage before slavery," premiered on BET last night. This song, "Black Gold," is the first single from the forthcoming Esperanza Spalding record, Radio ...

“What I know that I do not want to do anymore is stand up in front of a microphone and do a preordained list of songs,” bassist/vocalist/composer Esperanza Spalding told JazzTimes earlier this year.

When Hersch invited jazz, pop and opera composer Spalding to perform three nights with him at the Village Vanguard, he thought she'd bring her bass. Instead, Spalding just wanted to use her voice.

Music as medicine is an old notion, but few artists are actively trying to find the art form’s curative properties more so than the multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer Esperanza Spalding. She ...