There are many gifted singers in jazz today, and no shortage of accomplished acoustic bass players. But few jazz artists can be both. With her outsized afro and jangly earrings, Spalding recently ...

Usually, the guy playing the upright bass in a jazz band stands in the back, smoothly plucking out the beat. But Esperanza Spalding, who is performing at Long's Park Sunday night in the Summer Concert ...

It was in July 2007, while at the Montreal Jazz Festival, that Esperanza Spalding bought her first electric bass. What surprised her was not so much the sound it provided but the mobility. “The ...

Esperanza Spalding will perform at the Calvin Theatre in Northampton on Oct. 4. Singer/bassist Esperanza Spalding is so excited by a poet who recently has been inspiring her that she interrupts the ...

The quirky, supremely talented bassist/vocalist Esperanza Spalding, who got her start in Portland and rocketed to fame with a surprise 2011 Grammy for best new artist, continues to take sharp left ...

Jazz aficionados are listening to 24-year-old acoustic bassist, singer and composer Esperanza Spalding as if she were a wonderful melody. To many, the Portland native whose first name means “hope” in ...

Esperanza Spalding is one of the bright lights of American music — a bassist, composer and singer with a breadth of interests worthy of the American melting pot. Spalding has eye-popping stage ...