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Esperanza Spalding Meets Funding Goal to Build Artist Sanctuary
June 12, 2021Award-winning bassist and educator Esperanza Spalding recently launched a successful crowdfunding campaign to raise monies needed to buy land for the building of a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) ...
Dianne Reeves – Beautiful Life
February 18, 2014(Concord Records) Dianne Reeves has never been afraid of musical eclecticism and her new recording is no exception. Beautiful Life finds the singer turning to fellow Grammy winner Terri Lyne Carrington for ...
Amikaeyla – Being In Love
September 18, 2012(RootsJazz) Vocalist Amikaeyla new release, Being In Love, is a simply gorgeous record that only gets better with each song. The singer’s vocals are resonant and thoroughly captivating, and the song ...
Mike Stern – All Over The Place
June 19, 2012(Heads Up) Mike Stern has one of the most recognizable voices of any contemporary electric guitarist on the music scene. His latest, All Over The Place, has Stern as the centerpiece of a very eclectic work. The ...
Esperanza Spalding – Radio Music Society
March 20, 2012(Heads Up International) After becoming the first artist from the jazz community to receive the Best New Artist Grammy award last year, and achieving yet more notoriety, one might have expected Esperanza ...
Tineke Postma – The Dawn of Light
September 14, 2011(Challenger) The Dawn of Light is some of saxophonist Tineke Postma’s best work to date. Evident in this, her fifth album, is her expansion as a composer as well as a musician. She continues to forge a path ...
Terri Lyne Carrington – The Mosaic Project
August 9, 2011(Concord Jazz) Drummer Terri Lyne Carrington’s The Mosaic Project, her fifth recording as a leader, has her convening a ‘dream team’ lineup of musical talents, all of whom are women. The ...
Disney Jazz Vol. 1 – Everybody Wants To Be A Cat
March 8, 2011(Walt Disney Records) Where to start? When we see a project bearing the Disney name, there’s a natural tendency to think that it’s going to be something just for kids. That’s not the case with ...
Esperanza Spalding Is Grammy’s 2011 Best New Artist
February 14, 2011In the past decade there has been a steady movement away from presenting jazz at the Grammy Awards primetime telecast, so it came as a shock to many people when bassist/composer Esperanza Spalding was presented the ...
Concert Review: Pat Metheny Makes Magic In The Magic City
October 5, 2010(Birmingham, AL – October 2) “Magic” really is the best description for Pat Metheny’s Orchestrion travelling circus that rolled into Aly Stephens Center in Birmingham on Friday night. Rather ...
