All About Jazz — SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE, REGINA CARTER, DON BYRON, THE 3 COHENS, RANDY WESTON, JOSHUA REDMAN, AND ESPERANZA SPALDING TO HEADLINE THE 2011 PORTLAND JAZZ FESTIVAL BRIDGES AND BOUNDARIES: JEWISH and AFRICAN AMERICANS PLAYING JAZZ TOGETHER The 2011 Alaska Ai... more info

All About Jazz — 1 1 1 Steve Turre Delicious and Delightful (HighNote) 209 232 -23 0 57 1 7 2 11 8 Esperanza Spalding Chamber Music Society (Heads Up) 196 120 +76 0 64 1 8 3 2 2 Conrad Herwig The Latin Side Of Herbie Hancock (Half Note) 176 ... more info

All About Jazz — Esperanza Spalding knows jazz is a craggy mountain. Already much awarded, televised, elder-approved and Obama-endorsed at 25, the Oregonian bassist-singer could imagine her flag planted. But her septet's Thursday performance at Santa Monica's Broad S... more info

All About Jazz — Jazz bassist and vocalist Esperanza Spalding is performing at Sanders Theater in Harvard Square, Cambridge, on Saturday, October 2, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. A graduate of the Berklee College of Music, Spalding is an inventive composer and performer whose la... more info

All About Jazz — 1 7 7 m: Esperanza Spalding Chamber Music Society (Heads Up) 256 165 +91 1 74 1 5 2 5 6 m: Steve Turre Delicious & Delightful (HighNote) 223 170 +53 0 60 2 4 3 4 1 m: James Moody Moody 4B (IPO) 210 195 +15... more info

Altsounds — On August 17, the bassist/vocalist/composer/bandleader *Esperanza Spalding* released Chamber Music Society. Esperanza was on NPR's All Things Considered last Friday. Hear it here... more info

All About Jazz — September 11: ESPERANZA SPALDING In Performance @ the White House The Library Of Congress Gershwin Prize For Popular Song celebrated the music of Stevie Wonder. The gala event was hosted and presented by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michell... more info

The Telegraph — Esperanza Spalding gives a lylac secented jazz, unfailingly fulent, but suffocatingly tasteful. Rating * * more info

All About Jazz — When you ask most people, "name a jazz musician today," 9 out of 10 times you will get the name of someone who is already dead. But jazz today is undergoing some monumental changes and in this documentary film—icons among us: jazz in the present ... more info

Guardian Music — (Heads Up)As a former classical violinist, jazz bass-player and pop-savvy vocalist, Esperanza Spalding has a lot on her side. This unusual venture joins two trios representing different aspects of her past: a jazz one featuring Herbie Hancockish pian... more info