It was esperanza spalding’s longtime dream to make music with Milton Nascimento. The bassist was a student at Berklee College of Music when she first became a fan of the Brazilian singer-songwriter. A ...

We almost never post Tiny Desk (home) concerts anymore. But to have the glorious Brazilian musical icon Milton Nascimento with his gifted friend and collaborator, esperanza spalding, be an exception ...

The activist scholar devoted her life to sketching out a revisionist historiography of resistance in Latin America but also the world. Beatriz Nascimento. As told by others, the narratives of Black ...

Multitalented Milton Nascimento is frequently acclaimed as Brazil's greatest musician. As a singer/songwriter, he weaves a startling blend of musical influences, including Brazilian and African folk ...

Milton Nascimento, a musical deity in Brazil, collaborates with the bassist, vocalist and producer Esperanza Spalding on an album that contemplates age’s effect on art. By Jack Nicas Reporting from ...

In a collaborative work, the two artists find a fusion of old and new that charts a path forward for jazz and pop’s future. Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, Joni Mitchell and Brandi Carlile, Loretta Lynn ...

esperanza spalding first heard Milton Nascimento’s music as a grad student at Berklee. “Some Brazilian friends were over for dinner, and they were so scandalized that I didn’t know who he was,” she ...

The radical thought, activism, and aesthetics of Beatriz Nascimento provided the historical basis for Black Brazilian movements throughout the 1970s and ’80s under the country’s military dictatorship.