Now’s as good a time as any to ask the question “what do you need a song for?”: After a good 10 days or so this June, when American life looked like it might go back to normal, the country […]
Now’s as good a time as any to ask the question “what do you need a song for?”: After a good 10 days or so this June, when American life looked like it might go back to normal, the country […]
Two weeks ago, jazz bassist, singer, and composer Esperanza Spalding launched an ambitious project called “Exposure.” It was a 10-song album that would be, unbelievably, written and recorded with numerous guest musicians in the course of 77 hours. And the […]
Posthumous releases are always hit-or-miss. After all, demos and rehearsals were never created to be shared with the general public. And, while they can provide collectors and completists with some perspective into the mind of an artist, they don’t always […]
Esperanza Spalding’s sound is hard to define and her latest record, Emily’s D+Evolution, won’t make it any simpler. From the dissonant opening notes on “Good Lava”, we are transported into a messy, imperfect, wildly uninhibited world Spalding has dreamed up. Emily’s […]
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