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Topic subjectRE: How do you feel about Esperanza Spalding's latest album?
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2997887, RE: How do you feel about Esperanza Spalding's latest album?
Posted by hip bopper, Wed Nov-15-17 11:21 AM
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDrEHphZbcE
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>It's definitely avant guard for a blues and hard rock album,
>but I don't know if I would call it jazz.

It don’t know if I wouldn’t call it jazz since the genre has given birth to many sounds. It was definitely a progressive rock/blue grass sound. I thought it was pretty good.

If you take this recording for instance...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ayDDa0SnUuc

It has a definite progressive rock/jazz feel to it.

Artists such as Tony Williams Lifetime, Mahavishnu Orchestra, or Mary Halvorson to name a few could bend the genre to make the sound wanted. In Esperanza’s case while the album is good, I wonder how far she will continue to go in this direction.