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

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