Esperanza Spalding: jazz singer/bassist-- sounds kinda like Flora Purim or Minnie Ripperton

http://www.gaylynnrobinson.com/rw_media/users/user_files/5705/Louise%20017a.jpg

OK, I'll stop.

Really I'm just giving you a hard time because I'd like to claim that I was ahead of the curve: “Monk could have just picked my little ass up and thrown me through a wall”: 2007 Jazz D-bags Thread

wow, louise rowe is a total ws vintage hottie

i like her first album best really.

Hope people just now checking her out don't judge her solely on Chamber Music Society. IMO, Esperanza is much livelier and more accessible.

― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Wednesday, February 16, 2011 12:15 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I think the new one is her best yet, although "I Adore You" is still my favorite track she's done.

One more: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/55342-picture-of-al-haig-not-bill-evans-with-female-bassist/

See Best New Artist GRAMMY Winner Esperanza Spalding on
ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer Friday evening, February 18, 2011.
She's the "Person of the Week"!
The show starts at 6:30pm ET and is the last segment of the show

RIP

jk, hey you can hear her w/ joe lovano over here. sounds great. http://www.npr.org/2011/02/17/133838291/fivin-around-at-the-village-vanguard-on-jazzset

Just played the Letterman clip to the wife and we both loved it. How does the new, Grammy winner compare to that?

Honestly I'm not 100% sold on the new one yet, I like the debut more but I don't feel like I've really spent enough time with the latest yet. A big stumbling block for me was that I hate 98% of jazz vocalists, but I loved her voice and her compositions.

Now that I've seen some interview footage, I think I have a crush on her. She is like the very embodiment of charming. I wish I could like the music more (but it's an uphill battle since my taste in jazz is so limited), but I'll at least keep trying what she puts out.

at least she doesn't rely on annoying cymbal tapping

Ha.

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/babys-got-bass/?WT.mc_id=TM-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M215b-ROS-0811-HDR&WT.mc_ev=click

"baby's got bass"? nobody thought that was inappropriate?

I'm sorry, did I click on the rolling "is this racist?" thread?

nothing racist about it. it's meant to be a play on baby got back. and she's a bass player. but it casually reads as baby got ass. which seems a bad way to introduce Esperanza.

Apparently she hangs with prince? He mentioned her on his recent Arsenio appearance.

yup. she plays on some of his stuff as i understand it.

her new songs are fucking insane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDrEHphZbc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LtyqeE7ZHg

oh i guess i was not able to post one of those videos. it's here: http://www.npr.org/2016/01/08/462325734/esperanza-spalding-is-letting-emily-be-emily

joni mitchell vibes on that last one

so this album is WONDERFUL and also got bnm

OBSESSED WITH THIS

ohhh?

Earth to Heaven has some pure Joni vibes. Beautiful

Holy shit, "Rest in Pleasure" - I'm getting major King Crimson flashbacks. The guitar is a bit shoegazer indie too; I dunno, like Chapterhouse or something.

Omg this album. I was going to make Hejira and KC/Yes comparisons as well.

this album sounds like fusion Janelle Monae? predictably, I love it

Ebony and Ivy is insane

Nothing constructive to add here except more breathless praise. First album in recent memory I've listened to more than once in a row (and may go for a third today). The run from "Judas" to "Rest In Pleasure" is fucking amazing.

Also, Joni + Steely Dan + King Crimson + Yes + "sorta pretentious modern jazz / r&b" sounds like an album someone tells me about in a dream and I wake up cursing the universe that no such record exists

Maybe dangerous terrain here but how does this sound on vinyl? I'm wary of modern pressings sourced from the same master as the CD but I kinda want this

Haven't listened to this (or any of her albums) yet but this Pitchfork interview is fucking great and makes me want to check her out.

that interview is so bad ass

annette peacock, guys

fuck, she sounds like harriet wheeler on "noble nobles"!

Noble Nobles reminds me of Airbag

some pure Joni vibes. Beautiful

― calstars, Saturday, March 5, 2016 5:43 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea definitely

the p4k interview w/ her is great btw

loving this record!

hehe and that no bs interview too

this album is exceptional

although, it is also exceptionally long and I can only take it in small doses

This is cool, happy to hear it's exactly as described (Joni, Yes/Crimson). Has Pitchfork ever covered her before, or is this a new thing?

want to like this so bad. it's like screaming headless torsos meets joni. some great playing and arrangements, yet it's still falling flat on me. like the production is too slick. too much funk/fusion clinic kind of playing. never really grooves. not a lot to hold onto. like the kamasi washington album, im glad this music is being made but it's just like... going through the motions or a genre exercise or something.

although, it is also exceptionally long and I can only take it in small doses

― akm, Thursday, March 10, 2016 2:13 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dude it's like 46 minutes long

xpost I don't really like the funk/fusion clinic playing/production too much, either, and the novelty of the arrangements and busyness of the vocals does get a little exhausting, imo, so I can easily see why 46 minutes could feel twice as long.

is it really only 46 minutes long? it feels longer.

tbh I could have done without the Willie Wonka song but I think the rest is perfect

whoa this is great