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

Alright, didn't realize that.

(Matt, you may want to check out the Animal Collective thread. It only contains the greatest hoax ILX has ever has ever perpetrated against the internets.)

by which above poster means 'a rickroll'

yeah, but it's highly elaborate rickroll

and perpetrated against Animal Collective fans

well you kids are too meta-nu-skool for me, I think I have seen the date on my ILM tombstone today. ("and not a moment too soon," they replied)

didn't think there was much i'd be less interested in than "animal collective" or "animal collective fans" but "a highly elaborate rickroll against animal collective fans" qualifies, kudos

esperanza spalding otoh sounds awesome

Rev pls start a new Spalding thread so I can follow along and enjoy the music...

She's solid; much prefer the first album but v v v real live.
And super gorgeous.

Hmm. Well I listened to the entirety of the album and it was nice enough, but maybe too much of a good thing. Or maybe just not enough of MY kind of thing. She sure is nice for putting a song into a mix, though. And I'd certainly go see her live if I had a chance.

I wish I had gone to that show she did with Joe Lovano and Francisco Mela last month. I guess I'll have to wait until the record comes out. I did go and see this show. When did you see her, forks?

she's got a lovely voice and yeah, very talented, but ugh that coffee shop jazz template needs to go

The other day I heard the WBGO run down the Year In Jazz and she was the number one event.

xp: You can't blame the jazzists for being co-opted, even if some of them have been complicit. As (I think it was) Ice-T once said, "Don't hate the player, hate the coffeeshop." XP

The combination of her recent profile in The New Yorker and finding Esperanza in a bargain bin at B0rd3r's led me to finally checking her out, I really like it. Not completely sold on the vocals just yet (I have a very difficult time with jazz vocalists that aren't the classics) but its pretty entertaining. Very interested to hear the imminent new album.

lol @ joe & max pimping the mpp rickroll upthread

"I Adore You" is still one of my favorite tracks of the past few years

This could be cool:

http://www.amazon.com/Chamber-Music-Society-Esperanza-Spalding/dp/B003OFHMKO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1280843535&sr=1-1

I didn't take to the last one that much, but I definitely consider her someone for me to keep an eye on.

The new stuff is probably still too "la la la" mellow for me. I don't find it objectionable but I doubt it's something I'd ever be in the mood to listen to (at least not at this point in my life).

EOMG I LUV BIEBER! ESERANZA GO KILL URSELF!

ok i wondered why a jazz album was in the itunes top 10

i haven't heard her solo recs, but she sounds good backing joe lovano on his new one

start here if you haven't already:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f8hACrttII

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

(Haven't heard the first album.)

I like her. The album is a bit busy -- very much has the feel of a freshman "Look at all my talents!" effort, but good. I predict a more AAA radio-friendly follow-up.

― ichard Thompson (Hurting 2), Thursday, December 25, 2008 2:41 PM Bookmark

yeah she might as well get that norah jones money, if that's still a thing.

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, December 25, 2008 2:47 PM Bookmark

lol we were so right

Yes but there was some un-otm right here: why are there so many women bassplayers?

I mean here: why are there so many women bassplayers?

ha, that was in '02! esperanza was what, 12?

(18, but still)

I've seen some female upright players that are older: Jennifer Vincent, Mary Ann McSweeney, Marion Hayden. There's also this list

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f29/great-female-double-bassists-61567/

http://enigmaticalchemy.com/enigma_mea.jpg

And don't forget http://kimclarke.8m.com/

Apparently Gloria Coleman played bass before she switched to organ.

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?

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

this thread title

xp: absolutely, this is very good except the proggy elements in the beginning which i don't like too much. she really sounds like joni's reincarnation of around "the hissing of summer lawns".

want to like this/her, and i prob need to listen to it more to be fairer, but i feel like she just has no personality to latch on to.

Saw her last night and she was just so talented and charismatic and doing her own thang it was almost uncanny. She was in character (as such), prancing around in a white jumpsuit and her goofy glasses, singing impossibly well into a headset mic and rocking what looked like a 5-string fretless. Music, per the album, was Living Colour (esp. her guitarist, who reminded me a lot, sonically, of Vernon Reid) meets Joni Mitchell. There was a stage set, a crazy "program" handed out at the start, backup singers/dancers, and she just killed it with no concern for the head-scratching it no doubt inspired.

caught her June 23 2010 with McCoy Tyner -- and Reverend and this thread came to mind immediately

really was a fantastic show (and the DJ played "Ain't No Half Steppin'" as she left the stage iirc)

Next project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAOezi2Ea0k

"This project is going to be a little different from other ones I've done. You buy a blank CD. Then over 3 days, I'll fill it with beautiful, spontaneously created music. And you can watch the whole thing unfold over Facebook Live. September 12 starting at 9 AM.

Order your blank CD now: http://found.ee/EspWeb-j

Only 7,777 copies will be available, so first come first served."

-Esperanza

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/07/jazz-star-esperanza-spalding-flutist-claire-chase-join-harvard-faculty/

I have been dying to tell ppl about this for the past week.

The Facebook Live feed has started...

http://www.facebook.com/EsperanzaSpalding/videos/10159220183305527/

New album sounding very cool!

What happened to 'first come, first served'? Does the Spotify self-destruct after 7,777 streams lol? (Not that I'm complaining either way.)

oh wait, my bad, this isn't Exposure, it's a whole new Thang:

http://www.esperanzaspalding.com/12-little-spells/

http://www.esperanzaspalding.com/home-12littlespells/

Still working through this, but "Touch In Mine" captures well what she seems to have been aiming for.

12 Little Spells is kind of a prog-pop masterpiece, no?

I like ES, she’s got the groove

I liked it a lot when I listened to it and posted to the jazz thread. Haven't come back to it but I should.

new song is incredible!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5l0Wu821Ww