REVIEW Esperanza Spalding "Radiates A Poetic Aura"

Friday October 08, 2010

From The LA Times

Jazz Review: Esperanza Spalding at the Broad Stage
By Greg Burk

Esperanza Spalding knows jazz is a craggy mountain. Already much awarded, televised, elder-approved and Obama-endorsed at 25, the Oregonian bassist-singer could imagine her flag planted. But her septet’s Thursday performance at Santa Monica’s Broad Stage showed her to be a lighthearted striver.

A challenge: While cast as a youthful esperanza for a graybeard art, Spalding was playing chamber jazz in an upscale concert hall where few peers could budget a ducat. At concert’s start, she dealt by striding out in front of the lowered curtain as her string trio moaned behind it. Doffing coat and scarf, she settled into an armchair with a glass of white wine, and roles reversed — the audience became guests in her room.

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