Esperanza Spalding Kicks Off US Tour

Monday September 26, 2011

From Bay Area Examiner

Esperanza Spalding Highlights Bay Area Jazz Week
By: David Becker

It’s vanishingly rare these days for a serious jazz artist to turn into a bonafide pop culture sensation. So bassist, Grammy winner and all-around Miss Thang Esperanza Spalding would be cause for celebration even if she wasn’t a virtuoso. But this is one of those cases where talent and fame collide. Spalding is the most accomplished player to emerge on her instrument in decades, plus an intellecutal powerhouse — the Berklee College of Music hired her as an instructor minutes after she graduated.

She’s also has a bracingly spawling sense of good music, drawing inspiration from sources as varied as E, hip-hop and the classical repertoire. The latter will be the focus Saturday as Spalding performs with her Chamber Music Society in an SFJAZZ concert starting at 8 p.m. at Oakland’s grand Paramount Theater. Tickets are $20-$65.

For a full list of Esperanza Spalding’s Chamber Music Society shows watch the video below:

Radio Song (clip)	1:01	Esperanza Spalding
Black Gold	5:17	Esperanza Spalding

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*Radio Music Society Trailer
Esperanza Spalding at the Oscars
Black Gold
Esperanza Spalding at the Nobel Prize Ceremony

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