Esperanza
by Esperanza Spalding
- Type: Album
- Released: 20 May 2008
- Label: Heads Up
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:07:41
- Community rating: 3.77/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
The sophomore album from the virtuosic American bassist and vocalist was a massive critical and commercial breakthrough, topping the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums chart for over 70 weeks. Singing in three languages, she effortlessly fuses complex acoustic jazz bass playing with breezy Brazilian rhythms and incredibly agile, soulful vocal melodies. It signaled the arrival of a major new star in the contemporary jazz world.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic
Tracklist
- Ponta De Areia (5:36)
- I Know You Know (3:45)
- Fall In (3:56)
- I Adore You (7:26)
- Cuerpo Y Alma (8:01)
- She Got To You (4:27)
- Precious (4:23)
- Mela (6:56)
- Love In Time (5:45)
- Espera (4:38)
- If That's True (7:31)
- Samba Em Preludio (5:11)
Credits
- Donald Harrison - alto saxophone
- Jamey Haddad - angklung, djembe, ganzá [ganzas], percussion [brooms], percussion [ribinique], surdo, bongos [bongo], caxixi [caxix], crotales, cymbal [cymbals], percussion [drum], percussion [hadgini], shaker, caxixi, cymbal [china cymbal], reco-reco, triangle, percussion [hadjira]
- Victor Gould - arranged by [co-arranged]
- Gretchen Parlato - backing vocals
- Otis Brown III - backing vocals, drums
- Theresa Perez - backing vocals, other [local production], typography [cover type]
- Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez - drums
- Leo Genovese - electric piano [rhodes], electric piano [wurlitzer]