Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding – Alive at the Village Vanguard (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding – Alive at the Village Vanguard (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:31 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Palmetto Records

The 2023 album of the internationally acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Fred Hersch, who has already won major awards, together in a duet with the exceptional artist Esperanza Spalding, who has been awarded in the Grammy category “Best New Artist”, among others.

“Alive At The Village Vanguard” combines high class artistry of both to create an authentic and profound work between Jazz and Neo Soul live from the legendary venue. Released as a CD on Palmetto Records. born in Ohio in 1955, Hersch began playing the piano at the age of only four and showed such great talent that he was awarded a scholarship to the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music in his teens, from which he graduated in 1977 with the best possible grades. He then moved to New York, where he quickly became an extremely sought-after pianist through early collaborations with greats such as Stan Getz, Joe Henderson, Jane Ira Bloom, Toots Thielemans and Gary Burton, and developed the impressionistic style between classical jazz, improvisation and classical music that still characterizes him today. The Portland-born multi-instrumentalist Esperanza Spalding also showed great musical talent at an early age, learning violin, double bass and singing

Already active as a concertmaster at the age of 15, she became the youngest professor at Berklee at only 20 and has worked with artists such as Pat Metheny, Stanley Clarke, Mike Stern and Patti Austin to this day. In addition to winning countless critics’ awards and five solo Grammy Awards, Spalding has played with Steve Wonder at the White House. Among the most important and recognized artists of modern jazz, Fred Hersch and Esperanza Spalding will be part of the renowned “Alive At The Village Vanguard” series, in which two exceptional artists are always invited to play an unforgettable concert at the legendary Village Vanguard.

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Esperanza Spalding – TRIANGLE (EP) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Esperanza Spalding – TRIANGLE (EP) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 16:48 minutes | 197 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Records

Esperanza Spalding has released her latest project, Triangle – a suite of three songs each developed to foster emotional and physical connections to listeners. The tracks, “formwela 1,” “formwela 2” with Ganavya and “formwela 3,” were created with consultation from experts on music therapy, neuroscience, Black American music, Sufism, and South Indian Carnatic music.

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Esperanza Spalding – SONGWRIGHTS APOTHECARY LAB (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Esperanza Spalding – SONGWRIGHTS APOTHECARY LAB (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:00:53 minutes | 709 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Records

Esperanza Spalding has announced her new album SONGWRIGHTS APOTHECARY LAB, to be released September 24 on Concord Records. SONGWRIGHTS APOTHECARY LAB features 12 pieces of music, created and recorded over the past several months in her traveling laboratory, in collaboration with a host of musicians, researchers and practitioners. Each song was designed to have an intended effect for the listener, from grounding yourself in a moment of chaos and de-escalating interpersonal aggression to addressing the feelings of grief and loneliness brought on by the pandemic.

The Songwrights Apothecary Lab is a curated portal of new work that is growing out of spalding’s collaborative practice over the past years, exploring how songwriters might meaningfully incorporate therapeutic practices and knowledge into their process and production. The researchers and practitioners that partook in the labs specialize in fields ranging from neuroscience and music therapy to psychology and ethnomusicology.

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Esperanza Spalding – Emily’s D+Evolution (Deluxe Edition) (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Esperanza Spalding – Emily’s D+Evolution (Deluxe Edition) (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:21 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Records

Esperanza Spalding presents her latest project Emily’s D+Evolution a rekindling of her childhood interest in theater, poetry and movement, which delves into a broader concept of performance. Taking a new approach to her on-stage persona, the remarkable Spalding taps into new creative energy, delivering musical vignettes inspired during a “sleepless night of full moon inspiration”. As she puts it, “Emily is my middle name, and I’m using this fresh persona as my inner navigator. This project is about going back and reclaiming un-cultivated curiosity, and using it as a compass to move forward and expand. My hope for this group is to create a world around each song, there are a lot of juicy themes and stories in the music. We will be staging the songs as much as we play them, using characters, video, and the movement of our bodies”.

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Esperanza Spalding – Chamber Music Society (2010) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Esperanza Spalding – Chamber Music Society (2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:18 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Heads Up International

A brilliant and unique marriage of classical chamber music and jazz, anchored by Spalding’s honey-toned singing and bass playing, spiraling string arrangements, and top-notch musicianship make this one of the best jazz releases of 2010.

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Esperanza Spalding – 12 Little Spells (Deluxe Edition) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Esperanza Spalding – 12 Little Spells (Deluxe Edition) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:33 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Records

Esperanza Spalding has announced an audacious new project called ‘12 Little Spells’ that finds Spalding conjuring in the medium of musical creation, through an exploration of the body, human energy and healing. Esperanza released one new spell per day on her website and social platforms as well as a “Liner Notes Live” hosted on Facebook all resulting in over 3.1 million views. The spells come in the form of new music, which was crafted by Spalding at a castle in Italy last month, and then recorded in sessions completed just yesterday in Brooklyn. Each spell will be presented with song-specific imagery and video spells (short films that will accompany each release).

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Esperanza Spalding – Radio Music Society (Deluxe Edition) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Esperanza Spalding – Radio Music Society (Deluxe Edition) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:33 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings

“With her new companion LP, Radio Music Society, the young virtuoso branches out sonically, injecting her jazz roots with some modern soul and pop juice, maybe even inspiring the Bieber faithful to check in on what all the fuss is about… At just 11 tracks, this record flexes serious range, but what’s even more impressive is that it rarely sounds overextended.”
– Okayplayer

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Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding – Live At The Detroit Jazz Festival (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding – Live At The Detroit Jazz Festival (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:37 minutes | 982 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Candid

Wayne Shorter is arguably the greatest living jazz composer and a key participant in some of the most iconic jazz recordings of all time

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