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“She’s Not Just a Singer”: Voices, Instruments, and Musicality in Jazz

Submitted by Tamar Sella on May 11, 2015 - 10:18am

To begin, I invite you to watch this clip of Esperanza Spalding and Gretchen Parlato collaborating in recording Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Inútil Paisagem,” plucking strings, clapping, clicking tongues, improvising, singing with words in English and in Portuguese, vocalizing melodies, bass lines and counterpoints. 

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