Esperanza Spalding on the April 2012 cover of Bass Player magazine
#MagazineMonday
Source: bassplayer.com
Grammy Award-winning musician Esperanza Spalding will release her new LP Radio Music Society, a companion piece to her brilliant 2010 album Chamber Music Society, on March 20. Guest appearances on the album include rapper Q-Tip and soul songbirds Algebra Blessett and Lalah Hathaway, among others.
The collection will also accompanied by a separate deluxe DVD that contains 12 conceptual music videos on which Spalding expresses her inspiration for the album and tells the story behind each track.
The 27-year-old artist will embark on a North American tour in April in support of the project. Click HERE for tour dates.
Source: thejazzline.com
Bass Cadet: Esperanza Spalding
She is quiet about her dating life, but suffice it to say she is not big on wild nights out on the town, either in New York or in Austin, where she spends part of the year. “I’m not a partyer,” she said. “The most I ever do is go to a concert or see a movie.” She Skypes with friends on her computer, and reads; she’s in between “Staying Alive” by Vandana Shiva, the eco-feminist, and the poems of Emily Dickinson. She is a certified homebody, who, yes, enjoys practicing. “I’m a pretty introverted person,” she explained. “I mean, I like to be by myself. The identity of me, the personal me, outside of work is, you know, being a musician. So my life fuels my work.”
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Source: The New York Times
They Shall Proceed …
Lineup for the 4th annual ROOTS PICNIC set for June 4.
Source: okayplayer.com
![[Attention: the Recording Academy, Grammy voters, Bieber bigots/dickheads and hipster music critics]
From samuelfromtheshire:
Just because you started listening to someone this year doesn’t mean they’re a new artist.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgoc8hC24j1qayumio1_500.jpg)
[Attention: the Recording Academy, Grammy voters, Bieber bigots/dickheads and hipster music critics]
From samuelfromtheshire:
Just because you started listening to someone this year doesn’t mean they’re a new artist.
Source: samuelfromtheshire
I hope people realize that there are a lot of things happening in the jazz world that they may not know about — and that I’m one of them
Spalding was the first jazz artist nominated for best new artist in 35 years. But she is not exactly a newcomer, having released her breakthrough album in 2008.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
According to Q-Tip's Twitter, the Abstract will be producing Esperanza Spalding's next album
If this is official, this should help Esperanza Spalding become a household name. She’s already well-known in the jazz community (despite what the Recording Academy thinks), but this would be a good look for her and Tip.
Source: hiphopdx.com
![From L.A. Times:
Considering that [Esperanza] Spalding has been a celebrated figure on the jazz scene since her 2008 album, Esperanza, the Best New Artist nomination is a bit of a head-scratcher [more of a blunder], but it is consistent with the Grammys’ rules of an artist not releasing more than three albums before the recording that “establishes the public identity of that artist.”
Bullshit. This Grammy rule needs to be revised. This is a HUGE Grammy blunder. Spalding is not a “New Artist” compare to Justin Bieber, Drake and others (she has recorded three albums). Even sadder, this is Esperanza’s ONLY Grammy nomination. She received no recognition in the jazz categories for her beautiful 2010 album Chamber Music Society. Where’s the love for Esperanza?
The Recording Academy gets a thumbs down for this mistake.
[*bold brackets and above, my thoughts]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lcsfqavJoa1qb961jo1_400.jpg)
From L.A. Times:
Considering that [Esperanza] Spalding has been a celebrated figure on the jazz scene since her 2008 album, Esperanza, the Best New Artist nomination is a bit of a head-scratcher [more of a blunder], but it is consistent with the Grammys’ rules of an artist not releasing more than three albums before the recording that “establishes the public identity of that artist.”
Bullshit. This Grammy rule needs to be revised. This is a HUGE Grammy blunder. Spalding is not a “New Artist” compare to Justin Bieber, Drake and others (she has recorded three albums). Even sadder, this is Esperanza’s ONLY Grammy nomination. She received no recognition in the jazz categories for her beautiful 2010 album Chamber Music Society. Where’s the love for Esperanza?
The Recording Academy gets a thumbs down for this mistake.
[*bold brackets and above, my thoughts]
Source: grammy.com
