VIA TheYBF:” Zoe Saldana just shot her first campaign as a Calvin Klein model. She’s promoting the brand’s new femalee Envy line and is involved in one of the biggest launches in Calvin Klein history.”

I like magazine covers, which is part of the reason print to paper is not dead for me yet. VIBE has always had the dope covers that spoke volumes. This one, in my opinion, shows the current state of Diddy’s grind, and he’s probably coming for your favorite executives favorite rapper next.

Beautiful right….!! ..We Need More of this floating around the web.

Isn’t she lovely ? Just Saw These. She looks Great. Are these new ? DiZAAAAAAAAAAMMMMNNN !

Rogue|Presents: Esperanza Spalding (Full Episode) from Noel Guevara on Vimeo.

For the premiere episode of Rogue|Presents, the team sat down with Esperanza Spalding, the 25-year-old American singer, bassist, and composer. Directed by Noel Guevara and scored by Johnoy Danao.

5 Months ago, Yeah I’m Tardy.

Esperanza Spalding, Chamber Music Society EPK from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.

Peep this track list below and note that this jewel drops AUGUST 17, 2010

“The Most Beautiful Things Emerge From Chaos” – Esperanza Spalding

“Chamber Music Society” Track List:
1. Little Fly
2. Knowledge Of Good And Evil
3. Really Very Small
4. Chacarera
5. Wild Is The Wind
6. Apple Blossom
7. As A Sprout
8. What A Friend
9. Winter Sun
10. Inútil Paisagem
11. Short And Sweet

This Write up below is Via her Labels Heads Up x Concord Music Group where you can actually preview the album.

Centuries ago, long before the advent of radio or recording technology, chamber music was the music for the masses – the music in which people from nearly every segment of society could find meaning and relevance. A decade into the 21st century, Esperanza Spalding – the bassist, vocalist and composer who first appeared on the jazz scene in 2008 – takes a contemporary approach to this once universal form of entertainment with Chamber Music Society.

Backed by drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and pianist Leo Genovese – and inspired by the classical training of her younger years – Esperanza creates a modern chamber music group that combines the spontaneity and intrigue of improvisation with sweet and angular string trio arrangements. The result is a sound that weaves the innovative elements of jazz, folk and world music into the enduring foundations of classical music.

“So much of my early musical experience was spent playing chamber music on the violin, and it’s a form of music that I’ve always loved,” says Esperanza. “I was very inspired by a lot of classical music, and chamber music in particular. I’m intrigued by the concept of intimate works that can be played and experienced among friends in an intimate setting. So I decided to create my version of contemporary chamber music, and add one more voice to that rich history.”

Chamber Music Society is a place where connoisseurs of classical music and jazz devotees – and fans of other musics as well – can find common ground. The recording offers a chamber music for modern times – one that brings together people of different perspectives and broadens their cultural experience, just as it did in an earlier age.

Esperanza first took the world by storm in 2008 with her self-titled Heads Up debut recording that spent more than 70 weeks on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart. Two years later, she continues to push the boundaries of jazz and explore the places where it intersects with other genres. Co-produced by Esperanza and Gil Goldstein, Chamber Music Society surrounds Esperanza with a diverse assembly of musicians. At the core are pianist Leo Genovese, drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and percussionist Quintino Cinalli. The string trio is comprised of violinist Entcho Todorov, violist Lois Martin, cellist David Eggar and Gretchen Parlato on voice. The great Milton Nascimento also makes a guest appearance on one track.

“Gil is really a master at integrating a sound that caters to string instruments,” says Esperanza. “I’ve learned so much from working with him, and I’ve gained confidence in my abilities as an arranger and producer as well.”

But this is no dream. It is the work of a brilliant young musical talent who isn’t afraid to challenge the limits of jazz and its relationship to other forms of musical expression. Chamber Music Society is the first of two current Esperanza projects. Radio Music Society, set for release in the spring of 2011, features an exciting new repertoire of funk, hip-hop, and rock elements fused into songs that are free from genre.

“I’m confident that this music will touch people,” she says of Chamber Music Society. “We all want to hear sincerity and originality in music, and anyone can recognize and appreciate when love and truth are transmitted through art. No matter what else has or hasn’t been achieved on this recording, those things are definitely a part of this music. Those are the things I really want to deliver.”

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SAY Word, she lives in Austin, Texas ! I love this woman. This interview below is from MARCH 8, 2010, and I was obviously sleeping on it…never the less, it gets posted. VIA the New Yorker

By John Colapinto

This week’s issue includes my Profile of the bassist, singer, and composer Esperanza Spalding. (Subscribers can read the full text online; others can pay to access the issue.) When I visited her home in Austin, Texas, I asked if I could shoot some video of her explaining how a song gets written and arranged. She happily obliged me by talking about the creation of an as-yet-untitled song:

Spalding plans to record this song but not for her next album, “The Chamber Music Society,” which is due out this summer. But I went out to Bennett Recording Studios, in Englewood, N.J., and watched her conduct a string section for a song that will be. It’s called “Apple Blossom”:

Pappas Restaurants is suing BP over the Oil Spill claiming that the disaster has raised the cost of sea food and also made some of your tasty sea food treats harder to find. I am not an expert or familiar at all with any laws in this respect. I do know this law suit is making a lot of sense in the cities where ‘Pappas Restaurants’ operates their famous sea food restaurant known as “Papadeaux Sea Food Kitchen”. The customer will end up footing the bill for higher priced sea food in result of this oil spill, which can most certainly drive away business.

The ‘Pappas’ lawsuit, was filed in Galveston County, and it claims BP, Transocean, Halliburton & others have acted in “flagrant and malicious disregard … to all those who serve gulf seafood.”

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I’m starting to feel like they bragging about the disaster. I know they’re not releasing the videos to brag about it, it’s just crazy & interesting.

Musiq does it again. How this dude gonna take me back to Saturday Morning clean up sessions with Moms blasting MAZE Ft. Frankie Beverly…..Thats dope…Musiq doing it big with this remake. Dope Dope Dope !

“Apple has proved to be the most adept software and hardware manufacturer out there in delivering content to consumers in a seamless and very attractive consumer experience. No one’s gotten very rich betting against Steve Jobs—and I don’t want to be the first to do it.” -Edgar Bronfman Jr. via PC.ORG

LOL, so Basically Warner Music Group CEO, Edgar Bronfman Jr,chose to check himself in regards to Apples business model. He forewarned against going for Apples throat, due to the fact that they’re (“runnin this rap shit”-Jay-Z), controlling music sales period, with no subscription model in the beginning, to picking up LALA in aisle 9, they still remain on top because of the software and hardware Apple pushes to the masses. It seems like Itunes on your Iphone or Ipod is the key because they hand in hand, rule the world. Seems to me, if you throw in LALA type technology and WMG’s investment in such, this should extend the third hand, in which they all can skip happily to the bank holding each others.

I think an ITunes subscription service would definitely give the music industry a great lift and add marketing value to artist who are promoted along with their label mates, seeking the push for mass consumption. In it’s simplest form, when I look at the collabs that happen these days it’s so clear that artist are forcing or forced to make it work. It’s no longer about the artistry, or being a fan of the others music because half of these artist don’t really “click”, they just understand what that feature can do for their brand. I think If you place my(artist) music on a site with a subscription service, chances are my (artist) song with Justin Bieber or Drake feature will get my album added to the J.Bieber or Drake fan’s library. For the flat fee, consumption will increase and help the brand. Pandora and Spotify and all them services alike help the music industry at a time where people don’t really want to spend a dime but the consumption is still going strong.

“Apple is not currently a retailer involved in an access or subscription model,” he said. “I’d probably like not to speculate on what Apple’s plans are – it’s really interesting technology that it acquired in the Lala acquisition. That’s a question that Apple management should answer.

“I don’t think Apple’s really that clear to the market (on the subscription suggestion), so I wouldn’t suggest it will not have an impact, but I certainly won’t speculate what kind of impact it will have. -Edgar Bronfman Jr. via PC.ORG

“iTunes now contributes over a quarter of all U.S. music sales – but North American digital music income grew only 1.1 percent through 2009.” -Edgar Bronfman Jr. via PC.ORG

and as far as that Ipad thingy goes…

One Apple invention he’s not yet convinced on – iPad. It will give music “a more visual experience going forward”, but: “To suggest that it will create a new and large revenue stream in the short term is probably more optimistic than I want to be today.” -Edgar Bronfman Jr. via PC.ORG