Earth to HeavenEsperanza Spalding · 2016

pitchfork

“Thanks to folks like Kendrick and Kamasi Washington, popular music’s relationship with jazz is in a different place now than it was in 2011—the year that Esperanza Spalding won the Grammy for Best New Artist, prompting the usual sneer of “who?” from the internet and beyond. Though the former child prodigy has made four albums of impeccably performed jazz to date, no one should or frankly will be a”