1) Inspiration: Believe In What You Do! Esperanza Spalding. Interview.
Stumbled upon. Interesting to gain some more insight into her process: http://www.jazzdimensions.de/interviews/the_world/2011/esperanza_spalding.html I admire the work Esperanza Spalding does. She is a very versatile artist and the different aspects and forms of her work seem to be well accepted by herself as well as others. An excerption from the article is about her work with the saxophonist Joe Lovano. Esperanza Spalding had doubts about her role in the band and if she was good enough for the band. Lovano assured her, that if someone asks you to be in his band, he already trusts your abilities. And he advised her to play what she felt and to be herself in the music. And I liked the last thought of Esperanza to develop an approach where you trust in the music that comes out of your inspiration, not trying to do what others did before you or what you think other people expect of you. And that this trust in your work automatically leads you to the collaboration with certain