I've noticed a number of peculiar incidents among the members of the student body all having to do with rock and roll music.

Oh, I'm down, bet you man. Now if you don't think this song is the greatest song ever. I will fight you.

Esperanza Spolding has dazzled audiences with her virtuosic bass playing and on her latest album she's exploding all genre boundaries.

I'm Jim Deorgatis and I'm Greg Kott. The multi-talented Esperanza Spalding joins us in the studio.

Plus we remember David Bowie a year after his death. That's all coming up on sound opinions. This is a child prodigy on the double bass, went to the prestigious Berkeley

College of Music, not only graduated from there, but became an instructor.

debut album 2006 began playing with heavyweights like Wayne Shorter, Prince,

Herbie Hancock, won the best new artist Grammy in 2011, primarily known as a jazz musician, but she's always

worked across genre boundaries and on her latest album Emily's D-plus

evolution there is funk, there is jazz, There is classical. There is progressive rock.

She absolutely has a long list of talents, Jim. I mean this new album is so theatrical.

It crosses so many genre boundaries, artistic boundaries because it seeps into

theater and dance and you could really see that come to the fore in her stage show.

I mean she's a multi-instrumentalist, a multilingual vocalist, a bandleader, a librettist, a songwriter, a soloist.

She's a teacher, the list goes on and on. So I asked her how she identifies herself and what she likes to do

the most. What I like to do most is apparently think of something that I don't know

how to do yet and then throw all the ingredients that I can think of up under the canvas and see what sticks

and figure out how to make it work.

Sometimes that involves bass playing, sometimes that involves singing, sometimes that involves like theater, I like to experiment and

create things, create things at first were up here in the old imaginative mind and I really like to bring things to life.

Well you covered all of that ground in the new album, Emily's D plus Evolution, in the and the album itself but in the

performances that have set it up everything that I've seen there's a theatrical

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