Esperanza Spalding Makes Light of Serious Talent

Tuesday October 04, 2011

From Minnesota Public Radio

Esperanza Spalding Makes Light of Serious Talent
By: Euan Kerr

Jazz sensation Esperanza Spalding rolls into St. Paul Tuesday night for a concert at St. Catherine’s University. Spalding, an upright bassist and singer, is one of the hottest performers on the jazz scene right now.

But for someone who has won a Grammy, been invited to play at the White House, and been the subject of a long and glowing profile in the New Yorker, she is very down to earth.

When asked about a critic’s description of her work as projecting a “sophisticated intimacy,” she’s non-committal at first.

“That sounds nice. I mean it doesn’t sound bad,” she said with a chuckle. But then she warmed to her subject.

“It’s nice that people think about something enough to come up with their own unique description of it,” Spalding said. “Everybody has something unique to say because it touches somebody in a different way. But yes, it’s certainly intimate.”

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Black Gold	5:17	Esperanza Spalding

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