[Dixielandjazz] Who is Grammy Winner Esperanza Spaulding?

[Harry Callaghan]

I'll tell ya who is one hot babe, that's Ann-Marie Calhoun, (Irish father,
Chinese mother).........plays all kinds of violin music, from rock to
classical.

I just learned recently, that she co-composed the score for "Sherlock
Holmes" with Hans Zimmer.
There are a coupla videos with her on YouTube but I don't forward
links......it you're interested in seeing and hearing her, you have to work
for it.

Tides
HC
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Stephen G Barbone <
barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:

> She won the Grammy for BEST NEW ARTIST, beating out Justin Bieber and
> Drake. Perhaps not OKOM, and not limited to jazz, she is a jazz musician.
> You go girl!!!
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> Cheers,
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> Steve Barbone
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> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
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> Esperanza Spalding is a petite, precociously gifted 26-year-old bassist.
> Ms. Spalding is also an artist, a bandleader, a vocalist and a star
> attraction, if not always in that order.
>
> Ms. Spalding won best new artist at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards in
> February 2011. She was among the event's major surprises, and the first jazz
> musician to receive the award in decades, if not ever. The widely regarded
> favorites were Justin Bieber, the teen-pop juggernaut, and Drake, the slyly
> melancholy hip-hop star.
>
> Ms. Spalding, who is originally from Portland, Ore., is a charismatic
> whirlwind proudly hailed, for some time, as some kind of vital infusion for
> jazz. She taught herself to play the violin at age 4 and joined the Chamber
> Music Society of Oregon a year later. At 16, she switched to the double
> bass.
>
> She arrived with great reserves of talent and composure, becoming, at 20,
> one of the youngest musicians hired to teach at the Berklee College of
> Music, where she had just earned her degree. She released an auspicious
> instrumental debut, “Junjo” on the Ayva label in 2006, and a vocal
> follow-up, “Esperanza,” on Heads Up International in 2008. The album she
> released in 2010, also on Heads Up, was “Chamber Music Society,” which
> presented her lissome, light-gauge voice in a sparer light, framed by
> quietly sparkling arrangements.
>
> Ms. Spalding’s relevance has never really been rooted in her output as a
> recording artist. As an authoritative upright bassist who also nimbly sings,
> she has no exact peer or precedent: the particulars of her talent are
> unique. And in the interval between “Esperanza” and "Chamber Music Society,"
> she has wowed David Letterman, appeared in a Banana Republic ad campaign and
> performed by request at the White House and theNobel Peace Prize ceremony.
> She was tapped by Prince for a tribute at the BET Awards, and then as his
> opener at Madison Square Garden.
>
> Her success is only tangential to jazz, really, even though jazz percolates
> through her music, along with Stevie Wonder-ish soul and Brazilian pop and
> much else besides. Some of her most enthusiastic admirers come from the more
> jazz-literate, bohemian wing of hip-hop.
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