Chris Gill hooks up with the legendary Grammy Award winning bass virtuoso, singer and jazz legend Esperanza Spalding while she visits Australia for a National Tour & headline set at The Melbourne International Jazz Festival.

Chris chats with Esperanza about her tour, her recent collaborative album with Brazilian artist Milton Nascimento and her work to bring dance back into the art of Jazz.

“We’re integrating dance into the music because I realised that jazz is the only diasporic music that people don’t dance to anymore and it set me off on this whole wormhole of investigating the history of dance in relation to jazz and why people stopped dancing to the music…”

Photo credit: Melbourne International Jazz Festival.