Artist	Song
Esperanza Spalding	Wild Is the Wind
from Chamber Music Society (2010)
Esperanza Spalding	Sunlight
from Sunlight - Single (2008)
Esperanza Spalding	Winter Sun
from Chamber Music Society (2010)
Esperanza Spalding	Precious
from Esperanza (2009)
Esperanza Spalding	Junjo
from Junjo (2006)
Esperanza Spalding	Life of a Ripple
from Life of a Ripple - Single (2011)
Esperanza Spalding	Really Very Small
from Chamber Music Society (2010)
Esperanza Spalding	I Know You Know
from Esperanza (2009)
Stanley Clarke & Esperanza Spalding	All Over Again
from The Toys of Men (2007)
Esperanza Spalding	Ponta de Areia
from Esperanza (2009)
Esperanza Spalding	The Peacocks
from Junjo (2006)
Esperanza Spalding	Fall In
from Esperanza (2009)
Lionel Loueke	Flying
from Mwaliko (2010)
Esperanza Spalding	Chim Chim Cher-ee
from Disney Jazz: Everybody Wants to Be a Cat, Vol. 1 (2011)
Joe Lovano Us Five	Page 4
from Folk Art (2009)

Comment:

The alluring Esperanza Spalding was only 15 when she began performing on the acoustic bass with a seasoned combo on the Portland, Oregon jazz circuit. Her knowledge was limited to one single bassline — blues in F — but she persevered. A virtuoso performer, she became the youngest teacher in the Berklee College of Music, recording luminous albums of jazz-inflected songs with a strong Brazilian influence. Spalding scats like a jazz diva and plays bass with infinite warmth. Our Essentials playlist not only includes key cuts from three solo albums, including 2010’s outstanding Chamber Music Society, as well as a number of intriguing collaborations . . . it also goes a long way to explaining how she pulled off a huge surprise by winning the 2011 Best New Artist GRAMMY® Award, seeing off strong competition from the likes of Drake and Justin Bieber, and becoming the first-ever jazz artist to receive that accolade.

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