Wao.

And neo soul.

And a little Joni Mitchel

handled me Framus whch ist always in reach but yesterday squawked my left thumb and so gave up ;) Wie sollte man sowas auch musikalisch breichern? Noc chances anyway and not in my f. livetime!

Sorry, mas é tudo 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

Do you know Barbara Lynn? Similar badass...plays, sings and in heels, too. ;-) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i5yJatZ2tJ2wn6s.html

"Feminine swagger" what beta bullshit.

You forgot the touch of satanism

@@pretorious700 lol whats ur problem man? He's quite literally just saying she's cool.

@@migueltigrelazo how is she a satanist???

You in a cult?

I'm a bass player used to sing backing vocals on son, salsa, mambo and other latin styles. At first I thought it was impossible, but today it feels so natural that I don't even think about it. It just needs practice (a lot of) and experience.

Not that hard, takes talent and repitition with lots of practice. Anything is achievable given interest level.

@@fitnesspoint2006 yeah. Ok. 🤣Let me know when you post a performance this good and I’ll be the first person to like it!

@@alexanthony62 , Marcus miller , geddy lee

@@andersonferreiraakadjander9369 so she's on par with some of the most famous and greatest bassists in pop/rock/r&b?

All I can say is the notion of being 'gifted' is a myth. Nobody is born with this. She worked and studied her ass off.

@@haroldgodwinson4674 incorrect: some people are born with it, some work, some are born with it and also work

Kinda how I bonded with my cousins. We knew our instruments well🦸🏽‍♂️

I'll never get over that with any of these top artists. It's not human.

BuburAyam yes I know! I used to play bass and I always admired bass singer player !!! You likely need to start both together and "forget" one when play the other ... To some extend , went to see LEVEL 42 , bass singer once, he was very good , they are some rhythm where is easier to handle the job but still tough .. ..

Kassius KLAY and people cannot really appreciate the degree of difficulty until they have actually learned how to do both at the same time. I find bass guitar to be unique this way.

that is the funniest thing I've heard today

as a bass player there is a secret to it. i discovered it years ago watching sting. guitar players use a strumming motion, whether actually strumming or not it's hand position which keeps time. if you are a finger bass player you are not keeping time with your right hand so there are no reference points to sing off of. the secret is to hold your right hand like you are playing fingerstyle guitar or a pick. much easier to sing

True it is very hard, I play bass and have for 35 years It isn't an easy task to sing and play it well. Very few professional musicians can do it and do it well. She is one of them along with Sting, and Geddy Lee of Rush.

"You can't sing and play complex baselines at the same time" is wat a guitarist would say to a bass player.

Paul McCartney in i saw her standing there: :^|

Geddy Lee sees your bet, and raises you bass petals and keyboard.

No one has ever said that, simply because it's not true.

Let's not forget she's playing a fretless

I hear ya bro

it get's even better kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bLphdJuXm5fFc3k.html

This definitely has Floria vibes Love her

Flora Purim!

thanks! I have some new artists to listen to now :)

Same here 😅🥲

@@chickenbutt3966 ppp.pkp

Be thankfull you finally arrived....if you like this look up Australian Legend Tal Wilkenfeld....u will be suitably impressed...

Well, you have 4 months on me. I even lived in Portland for a while. She's really something.

She won a Grammy years ago.

That unfortunately doesn't happen with jazz artists. Jazz may have its renaissance moment as of late, but as long as jazz doesn't top any charts, there won't be huge promotions for folks like Esperanza. Luckily, she hasn't been hurting for hits like that because she is not that kind of artist.

She beat Drake for Best New Artist at the Grammys back in the day… she’s been given plenty of recognition

Listen to Willow Smiths new album and her tiny desk performance

5 Grammy wins aren’t enough! 😅

The universe cares not for "deserving" or "not deserving". Plus i dont think the musician even cares for accolades as much as the fans do for the musician.

You cant compare to Jaco bro....she is no doubt but not d same level with pato

I hear a little bit of Etta James too :)

Yeah, fretless bass don't mean that they're a Jaco.

@@redl0ydd752 LOL that's just sunk my boat

and the ease of the flow- pure joy ♫

rembeadgc , your right.... about. that.

..."next-level gifted...." Perfectly stated. She really, really is that sublime, rare, beyond the heavens musician.

Absolutely! Sometime the Universe points, and says "You".....It pointed at Esperaza at a young age :)

Vince Harrison, Sr ¢√

I know, I can play whole notes and half note, but NOT that.

And her bass is fretless. Amazing

Whole notes are off key. :(

Fretless to boot

I agree.

Truth. It's awful of me that I wish she didn't exist...she SHOULDN'T exist. She is freak of musical nature.

luka all of it is pretty dope as is all her music..

Your sort of sexually biased comment is best for pornhub or that sort of 'social' platform. You disrespect the art-form by objectifying the female involved. What if you merely listened to this performance without the visual? This would create a more appropriate realistic reaction from anyone who tends to primitively merely "listen with their eyes". Please do be informed that you are inappropriate to sophisticated people who intuitively understand what everyone else already knows (what I am saying) without having to be so directly instructed.

@@riowallacemusic1150 maybe he's talking about the groove being hot which it certainly is

@@riowallacemusic1150 lmao get off your high horse you Mr. Sophisticated.

@@riowallacemusic1150 bruh, he was talking about the song, and even if he was talking about her, he was just saying that he finds women who play an instrument attractive, if he’s even straight in the first place. So yeah, if he was even talking about her, he was talking about her skill, not her looks

@@riowallacemusic1150 you seem like the type to over analyse shit without actually reading it properly. You don’t sound smart you just sound stupid.

They have the slightest idea fam. LOL

David Graham repressing?

legolwa probably meant impacting 😉

Representing?

...and she's pretty amazing at that!

BlackDeliverance she beat drake too!! She's awesome.

people who do this can switch pilots because the technique is powered by love. a lot of musicians lose this blend of technique and love and give in to that common oh so common fear of feeling not good enough.

Good Question! I've found it more productive to generally put the fingers on auto, more so than vocals. the voice loses too much soul. but often you can blend both together so that neither is completely on auto, especially if you have solid beat to play with and are halfway improvising. improvising on vocals and bass the way she is isn't possible without really, really solid bandmates! kudos to everyone on stage!

Problably the bass was in auto mode while she sing. In fact, the bass line is not too dificult. It's not easy but not too hard. When she stop sing, then she split some more notes in the bass. Sorry for my english.

Also, she close her eyes since song difficult parts, so her atention is more in her voice in that moments

She is actually a well disguised pair of siamese twins.

Terrific woman in jazz&groove music , yes ..and very beautiful .. ! But best female bass player and best jazz singer in the world ?!! I guess you don't know very much about jazz maybe . To my knowledge I don't know a better female acoustic bass player ok . But there's a thousand great jazz singers !! .and ..have you listened to that girl teenager called Tall Wilkenfield ..on electric bass ?

frederic orsi I think he meant bass/vocalists. Purely on bass, I think Kim Clarke is up there with her, but bass/vocals, I can't think of anyone else.

frederic orsi Tal Wilkenfield RULES! Esperanza Spaulding is a better singer to my knowledge,however,Tal on an electric is SUPERIOR!.......Both are awesome!

francois jean Gail Ann Dorsey is not bad, but she's not a jazz singer.

pretty much the only one

the bass sounds like paper bass

Classy af too

+Ambrosia Cunningham said: "She's beautiful and talented. What more can you ask for?!"A bit of dentistry? She appears to be missing a tooth on the left side.

john dow Her teeth have nothing to do with her performance as an artist. If she doesn't want to get her teeth fixed then she doesn't have to. Stop being rude. I'm sure there's something about your appearance that can use fixing as well.

+Ambrosia Cunningham I didn't say they have. :-)

+john dow 😒😒😒

Luciano Silva she totally stole it from maestro Djavan

It's bossa nova/some african rythms,a lot of brasilian music is influenced in that way i think. That especially reflects in the first song that was played