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Title: What happens when a Chick is a Cat!
Post by: white_cloud on June 01, 2012, 04:38:30 AM

I have only recently discovered the talent that is Esperanza Spalding. The last minute or so of this performane literally sent chills down my spine. Wow!
http://youtu.be/joUdslQFlS4 (http://youtu.be/joUdslQFlS4)

Title: What happens when a Chick is a Cat!
Post by: terryc on June 01, 2012, 05:45:10 AM

Isn't she the one who won a major award instead of Justin Blubber at a recent music presentation??

Title: What happens when a Chick is a Cat!
Post by: white_cloud on June 01, 2012, 06:31:33 AM

Lol, yes Terry I do believe you are right. A victory for style & substance over....well, lets just leave it there!

Title: What happens when a Chick is a Cat!
Post by: hammer on June 01, 2012, 09:23:00 AM

Wow! I've heard her before and always appreciated her voice. Listening/watching this video just made me realize the extent to which her vocals remind me of the great Flora Purim.

Title: What happens when a Chick is a Cat!
Post by: terryc on June 01, 2012, 12:24:31 PM

Well I couldn't watch the vid as I was at work(YT blocked)
Sings and play compicated basslines and just to rub it well in..it was fretless!!
Now that is TALENT!!!

Title: What happens when a Chick is a Cat!
Post by: Bradley Young on June 01, 2012, 07:08:54 PM

A prodigious talent, indeed, and her life story is an inspiration.

Title: What happens when a Chick is a Cat!
Post by: yogalembic on June 01, 2012, 07:16:31 PM

Wonderful cover story on her...Bass Player Magazine, April 2012.

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Post by: tncaveman on June 01, 2012, 07:29:36 PM

Nice!
 
Stephen

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Post by: bassilisk on June 04, 2012, 06:15:33 AM

A few years ago I caught the Rolling Thunder Tour here in NYC (Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten). What a line up! and opening for them was ES with her band. I would buy her cd's just to hear her sing! Amazing vocal stylings. Then she grabbed a standup and proceeded to play the daylights out of it...while singing! She's just a slip of a lass which makes the physicality of it even more impressive.
 
Her award was very well deserved - it's about time somebody over there woke up and recognized an artist that was truly gifted.
 
P.S. - If a bomb went off in this theater that night at least 3/4 of all the bassists from the tri-state area would've disappeared. I met a guy who was here from Australia and timed his vacation to make the show.
 
(Message edited by bassilisk on June 04, 2012)

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Post by: peoplechipper on June 11, 2012, 02:15:07 AM

Never heard of her before now...thanks! great voice and an excellent player to boot; that's so not prefabricated it gives me hope...
 
Tony

Title: What happens when a Chick is a Cat!
Post by: terryc on June 11, 2012, 02:40:56 AM

Now I think on, I am sure she supported Level 42 on their 30th Anniversary tour in 2010, I managed to speak with her in the interval at The Sage in Newcastle UK