Esperanza Spalding

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Esperanza Spalding at the Newport Jazz Festival 2008
Esperanza Spalding at the Newport Jazz Festival 2008
Chart positions
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Albums
Esperanza
  US 138 05.03.2011 (1 week)
Chamber Music Society
  US 34 05.03.2011 (6 weeks)
Radio Music Society
  CH 75 04/01/2012 (1 week)
  US 10 04/07/2012 (10 weeks)
Emily's D + evolution
  US 88 03/26/2016 (1 week)

Esperanza Spalding (born October 18, 1984 in Portland , Oregon ) is an American jazz musician (bass, vocals, composition) and Grammy Award winner.

biography

Spalding grew up in Portland, Oregon. At the age of five she learned to play the violin - motivated by seeing the cellist Yo-Yo Ma on television - and played for ten years in the orchestra of the local Chamber Music Society of Oregon. At the age of fifteen she became concertmaster of the orchestra and in the same year discovered the double bass for herself. She switched to this instrument and also played non-classical music of various styles. She also appeared as a singer. She studied from 2000 at the Portland Conservatory and then at the Berklee College of Music in Boston , where she turned increasingly to jazz. In 2005, after completing her studies, she received a scholarship from the renowned Boston Jazz Society and immediately afterwards, at the age of just twenty, became the youngest professor of all time at Berklee. Then she played u. a. with Michel Camilo (her teacher), Dave Samuels , Pat Metheny , Stanley Clarke , Patti Austin , Donald Harrison , Mike Stern and Joe Lovano . In 2007 she was u. a. at the Montreal Jazz Festival, and on February 24, 2007 , Spalding appeared on an after-show of Prince as a musical guest. In 2008 she toured Europe with her own trio and appeared on the David Letterman Show. End of February 2009 played Spalding in the White House at the presentation of the Gershwin Prize to Stevie Wonder . In 2006 her debut album "Junjo" was released. In May 2008 her CD “Esperanza” was released on the “Heads Up” label.

She composes her own pieces and occasionally sings while playing the bass, especially when she is with her own band in the role of the show woman - in addition to English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Esperanza Spalding at the Monterey Jazz Festival (2012)

Critic Oliver Hochkeppel emphasized “her extremely nimble, confident and expressive playing” on the bass and mentions her vocal technique for her bass playing, “sometimes in unison like Slam Stewart , mostly complex interlocked, with bass and vocal lines largely independent of contrapuntal. She often changes from text to improvising scat passages , even with the standard ' Body and Soul ', which she (...) sings in Spanish and in five-four time. "

Her own trio in 2008 included the pianist Leo Genovese and the drummer Otis Brown III , partly supplemented by the guitarist Ricardo Vogt. In 2009 she went on tour in Germany for the first time. In December 2009 she played at Barack Obama's Nobel Prize Ceremony .

Their third CD was CD of the month for the hi-fi magazine stereo in September 2010 . She was named Best New Artist at the 2011 Grammy Awards . In the same year she performed at the Newport Jazz Festival . In 2012 she worked with her ensemble Radio Music Society, whose musical director is the saxophonist Tia Fuller .

In November 2012 Esperanza Spalding won the annual reader poll of Down Beat magazine in two categories: as “Best Jazz Musician” and for Radio Music Society as Jazz Album of the Year . In 2013, the album won a Grammy Award in the Best Jazz Vocal Album category. Seven years later she received the same award for the second time with the album 12 Little Spells .

Discography

Spalding at the celebration for the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama (2009)

As a solo artist

With other artists

  • 2002 with Noise for Pretend Happy You Near
  • 2006 with the Nando Michelin Trio Duende
  • 2007 with Stanley Clarke The Toys of Men
  • 2009 with Joe Lovano Us Five Folk Art
  • 2009 with Mike Stern Big Neighborhood, Heads Up
  • 2012 with Jack DeJohnette Sound Travels
  • 2012 with Salif Keïta Talé
  • 2020 Esperanza Spalding & Fred Hersch : Live at the Village Vanguard

Web links

Commons : Esperanza Spalding  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts CH Charts US
  2. ↑ Interview, Jazz Podium July, August 2008
  3. ↑ Interview in Jazz Podium
  4. ↑ Oliver Hochkeppel: Hope for woofers. Süddeutsche Zeitung from 21./22. March 2009
  5. ↑ Oliver Hochkeppel: Jazz star Esperanza Spalding - Let's play (2012) - Interview in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
  6. ↑ page 136
  7. ^ Report from Newport Jazz Festival in The New York Times
  8. ↑ 2012 DownBeat Readers Poll ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.downbeat.com
  9. ↑ Grammy Nominations Announced (2012) in ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. JazzTimes @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jazztimes.com
personal data
SURNAME Spalding, Esperanza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz bassist
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Portland , Oregon , USA