Jazz star Esperanza Spalding is facing legal action over the cover art for her latest album.

Clint Eastwood‘s A Star Is Born remake is off to a shaky start….if it starts at all.  For over a year now, Beyonce has been in talks to have one of the lead female roles (originally played by Barbara Streisand) in the flick.  But Mrs. Knowles Carter has just taken her cards out the game.   […]

The 33rd annual Tri-C JazzFest comes to Cleveland, April 19-29, at venues throughout the city. The line-up will include legendary artists, rising stars and three generations of great women.

Janelle Monae, Esperanza Spalding, Kanye West and M.I.A. all appear in W Magazine’s latest issue, the Music & Style issue. Proving that the love affair between fashion and music has never been hotter, photographer Max Vadukul captures 10 designers and the musicians who inspire them most. Meet the pairs of “Behind the Muses”: Kanye West […]

Esperanza Spalding is featured in the May 2011 issue of InStyle magazine. The bass-playing jazz singer who rightfully won the Best New Artist Grammy Award this year (instead of Justin Bieber), wears neon looks from Michael Kors, Prada and Jil Sander. If you still don’t know who she is, get familiar: Who Is Esperanza Spalding? […]

Esperanza Spalding shocked everyone last night at the Grammy Awards when she took home the “Best New Artist” Grammy.

Teen pop sensation Justin Bieber may have fame, fortune, a new movie and a good head of hair, but he doesn’t have a Grammy Award, an omission that’s pushed some of his die-hard fans over the edge. When jazz performer Esperanza Spalding shocked the music world and beat out Bieber for the Best New Artist […]

Esperanza Spalding may have won the Grammy for Best New Artist, but some have reveled in her talent for years.

Esperanza Spalding shocked everyone last night at the Grammy Awards when she took home the “Best New Artist” Grammy. Spalding has been making headlines in the jazz world before her 2006 debut solo album, “Junjo,”and President Obama selected her to perform at the Oslo City Hall when he accepted his 2009 Nobel Prize, as well […]

Prince announced the “Welcome 2 America” tour at a press conference today at New York City’s famed Apollo Theater.

Janelle Monae, Alicia Keys, Esperanza Spalding and Patti LaBelle rocked the house last night with this all-star tribute to the eclectic musical legend, Prince!