Had you been watching The Tonight Show with Jay Leno one Monday night last March, you might have seen pianist Robert Glasper leading his Experiment band from the NBC studios in Burbank, Calif. Had you preferred the Late Show with David Letterman, you might have seen bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding front a horn-heavy ensemble [...]
Esperanza Spalding on Why Jazz Isn’t Mainstream and the Benefits of Being Hot
August 6, 2012 | Posted by
Grammy Award-winning jazz bassist and vocalist Esperanza Spalding says one of the reasons jazz music has a difficult time becoming more mainstream is that by the time an artist gets good enough and polished enough to be really celebrated, he’s a middle-aged man who no longer fits into mainstream society’s image of what’s sexy. “It [...]
