Esperanza Spalding Jazzes Up The Hollywood Bowl

Friday August 24, 2012

From The LA Times

Review: Esperanza Spalding, Anita Baker jazz up the Hollywood Bowl
By: Chris Barton

Spalding, on the other hand, is only the most famous contemporary jazz artist of her generation. On the heels of her still-striking Grammy win for best new artist in 2011, Spalding has been all but anointed the chosen one by champions of the music with a wealth of high-profile performances, including one scheduled at Disney Hall next year with Wayne Shorter.

But if Spalding has felt any discomfort in the weight of those expectations, she showed no sign of it on her follow-up album “Radio Music Society,” a mix of soul, R&B and jazz that could have only been a product of her vision.

And she certainly looked comfortable in the spotlight of a near-full Hollywood Bowl during her opening set. In her fourth appearance at the venue, including two stints at the Playboy Jazz Festival, Spalding was almost jarringly at ease fronting an ensemble that included a seven-piece horn section in a boom box-styled bandstand.

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