Factoids:
- Born 1984
- Esperanza recently won the Grammy award for "Best New Artist" in 2011
- first jazz artist to ever win the award in the Grammy's 53 years
- Jazz bassist and vocalist who arranges and composes
- She started on the violin at a very young age and then discovered the bass at 15
- she also plays the guitar, oboe, and clarinet
- Attended the Berklee College of Music on a full scholarship
- Upong graduating she was hired by the college of music
- At the age of 20, she was the youngest professor ever hired at Berklee
- Her music pulls from world sounds as inspiration
- this particular song is influenced by Brazilian music
- she does a pretty sweet solo where she improvises & scats at the same time
No comments:
Post a Comment