Young Pluck: Esperanza Spalding is the New Face of Jazz

Thursday September 30, 2010

From the Boston Herald

Young pluck: Esperanza Spalding is the new face of jazz
By Bob Young

Esperanza Spalding has performed at the White House, shared the stage with Herbie Hancock and topped the jazz charts, all before she turns 26 later this month. The Berklee College of Music grad is, hands down, jazz’s brightest young star, a bassist, singer and composer who has appeared on “The Late Show with David Letterman” and at President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize reception.

After moving from Portland, Ore., to Boston, where she lived from 2002 to 2006, she became Berklee’s youngest instructor ever when she joined the faculty at age 20. Now splitting her time between Austin, Texas, and New York, Spalding is on tour, riding her latest CD, “Chamber Music Society,” which is sitting high on the Billboard, Amazon and iTunes jazz charts.

Relentlessly humble about her meteoric rise and unfazed by her growing fame, Spalding talked with the Herald by phone from Indiana prior to her concert Saturday at Sanders Theatre.

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