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The 2011 Grammy for Best New Artist was the first time a jazz musician had won the category. Esperanza SpaldingEsperanza Spaldingエスペランサ・スポルディング, beating Justin Bieber and Drake. Chamber Music SocietyChamber Music SocietyEsperanza Spalding · 2010 (2010) moved across classical, jazz, and Brazilian music without genre anxiety — that fearlessness was her statement.

The credits on Afro-Desia (1975) put Joe Lovano in an organist's band, seven years before Psalm (1982) set him alongside the drummer's group he would be identified with. Looking backwards from the later reputation, that route in is easy to miss.