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Spalding and Moran Make 2011 a Rich Year in Jazz
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Wednesday December 21, 2011
From Sign On San Diego
2011: A very rich year in jazz
By: George Varga
Jazz assumed an unusually high profile in 2011, locally, nationally and — in one key instance — both at the same time…
…The biggest national jazz story of 2011 was bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding, 27, whose internationally televised Grammy Awards performance in February had a welcome San Diego angle.
Spalding stunned the music world by becoming the first jazz artist to ever win the Grammy for Best New Artist, beating out the heavily favored Justin Bieber, Drake, Mumford & Sons and Florence + The Machine. During her Grammy performance on the star-studded telecast in Los Angeles, she played with the Grammy Jazz Ensemble, which featured top high school students from across the nation and was deftly anchored by 15-year-old San Diego drum dynamo David James…
…Spalding wasn’t the only big national and international story in jazz in 2011, although she was certainly the most high profile. In Washington, D.C., celebrated pianist-composer Jason Moran was named the new artistic adviser for jazz at the Kennedy Center.
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| There Is A Light That Never Goes Out | 5:22 | Becca Stevens |
| Black Gold | 5:17 | Esperanza Spalding |
| Óró, Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile | 5:35 | The Gloaming |
| Trio Blues | 4:16 | John Scofield |
| Calling Me Home | 2:35 | Kathy Mattea |
| Fellowship | 3:33 | Lizz Wright |
| Mosaic Triad | 6:00 | Terri Lyne Carrington |
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| Afro-Pfingsten Festival 2010 | Dobet Gnahoré |
| Calling Me Home EPK | Kathy Mattea |
| O Que Voce Quer Saber de Verdade | Marisa Monte |
| EPK | Youssou N'Dour |
| The Mosaic Project | Terri Lyne Carrington |
| *Altan with the RTE Orchestra | Altan |
| Que Palo/Memorias | Pedrito Martinez |
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