REVIEW Jazz Darling Esperanza Spalding Seduces With Chamber Jazz

Tuesday September 21, 2010

From The Minneapolis Star Tribune

Jazz Darling Spalding Seduces With Chamber Jazz at Dakota
By Jon Bream

Esperanza Spalding walked through the audience at the Dakota Tuesday night and arrived at the stage. She turned on a table lamp, removed her scarf and short jacket, and then she began singing a William Blake poem as a string trio played behind her.

The 25-year-old darling of the jazz world is a conceptual artist. Her current album, “Chamber Music Society,” is a melding of chamber music, jazz and soul. Her next project, “Radio Music Society,” will embrace funk, rock and hip-hop. We’ll have to wait for that one.

For now, we had to settle for being mesmerized with sophisticated intimacy for nearly 75 minutes during her late show on Tuesday.

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