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Esperanza Spalding's voice embraces fans
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Monday September 24, 2012
From The Monterey Herald
Esperanza Spalding’s voice embraces fans
By: Mac McDonald
If Trombone Shorty owned Saturday afternoon at the 55th annual Monterey Jazz Festival, surely Esperanza Spalding owned Sunday afternoon.
Each artist did it in wholly different ways, however. Shorty grabbed the audience by the throat and didn’t let go for 90 minutes of funk and New Orleans soul.
The Grammy Award-winning Spalding did it by cooing and seducing the audience with spiritual uplift, love and environmental consciousness. Oh, that and a sweet-as-homemade-pie voice and assured bass playing.
Dressed in a flowing white dress, a huge rings of Saturn necklace and her trademark Afro, Spalding captivated a near-capacity crowd in the sun-drenched main arena at the Monterey County Fairgrounds.
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