One of the youngest professors with a multi-lingual lilt!

At the Stone Parliament of Art we try to bring you only the best. We've been chatting and hopefully this new year we'll be able to follow some type of format covering the arts with music one week to museums the next and so on. But since this has never been our style please don't hold us to it. Many of you have let us know that you like our eclectic mix! So they say...if it's not broken, don't fix it!

If you haven't heard of Esperanza Spalding, you can say you heard about her on Stone! Enjoy!





Over the holidays we've been listening to a lot of music. Giving and receiving music is still by far one of the best gifts. Seems it never fails and people have a little more time to indulge when the holidays are in full swing.

Stone Parliament of Art thinks you may enjoy the sound of Esperanza Spalding, that is if you've got an ear for jazz. Barely into her 20s, this bass virtuoso now teaches at Berklee College of Music. Almost immediately after graduation from college( 2005) Esperanza was hired by Berklee becoming one of the youngest professors in the institution's history.

Not only is Esperanza Spalding a whiz on bass, she also sings with a beautiful, multi-lingual lilt and exudes passion in every performance.

Read an exclusive interview HERE.

Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945, is a private, degree-granting four year college in Boston, Massachusetts offering an accredited four-year baccalaureate degree/diploma, with majors in composition, contemporary writing & production, film scoring, jazz composition, music business/management, music education, music production and engineering, music synthesis, music therapy, performance, professional music, and songwriting.

Images found here.