Esperanza Spalding on NPR Piano Jazz
Is it too early to think of this as a retrospective? Probably; yet Esperanza Spalding has done a lot since this 2008 visit to Marian McPartland’s piano jazz, so let’s just consider this an interesting listen, documenting where this quickly evolving artist was in her (relative) youth — including her take on “Jazz Ain’t Nothin’ but Soul.”
-Nick Moy
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McCoy Tyner and Friends Jam at SFJazz
One of the first video nuggets from SFJazz: McCoy Tyner, playing his composition Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit, with Joe Lovano, tenor saxophone, Esperanza Spalding, bass and Eric Harland, drums, and playing the blues with a group of West Coast players,including Bobby Hutcherson, John Handy, Joshua Redman, Bill Frisell and bassist Matt Penman.
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Read MoreEsperanza Spalding and Gretchen Parlato: Alone Together
Two rising stars in the jazz constellation, Gretchen Parlato and Esperanza Spalding, keep it simple — simply beautiful — in this intimate duet of Antonio Carlos Jobim’s Inutil Paisagem.
-Nick Moy
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