Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Esperanza Spalding has announced a new collaborative album with heralded Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento. Recorded in Brazil last year, Milton + Esperanza is due out August 9 via Concord. They’re ...

When legendary Brazilian singer-songwriter Milton Nascimento celebrated a lifetime in music with his 2022 farewell tour, it would have been safe to assume that he would also retire from the recording ...

During this week's two-hour program of Jazz and improvised music, new music from Brazilian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Milton Nascimento and US bassist and vocalist esperanza spalding, ...

Grammy-winning jazz artist esperanza spalding says she gets chills when she thinks about the first time she heard the voice of Milton Nascimento, played over the stereo at a dinner party. She was a ...

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 ...

The documentary Milton Bituca Nascimento premieres this Thursday (Mar. 20) in Brazilian theaters, but preview events have taken place in Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. Sitting in the ...

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 ...

Antonio Carlos Jobim, the late pioneering bossa nova composer, once defined Milton Nascimento as a “true songbird.” A more apt description would be hard to find: Nascimento built his early career — ...

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 ...

The pair perform songs from their collaborative jazz album, Milton + esperanza. Tune in to a mini-concert with esperanza spalding and Milton Nascimento Grammy-winning jazz artist esperanza spalding ...