Bassist, vocalist, and composer Esperanza Spalding is a spellbinding talent whose soulful sound has captivated a vast international audience. The first jazz artist to win the GRAMMY for Best New Artist, she has been a collaborator with jazz giants including Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner and has made an indelible mark as a bandleader, releasing eight chart-topping albums including Chamber Music Society, Radio Music Society, Emily's D+Evolution, 12 Little Spells, and her most recent 2021 release, Songwrights Apothecary Lab. For this performance, she will revisit highlights from her momentous career with a superb band.
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Esperanza Spading has created a sensation in the music world, with over 150 performances a year from Austin City Limits to President Obama's 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo. Her 2008 major label debut, Esperanza, rose quickly on the Billboard jazz chart and stayed there for 62 weeks. As a bassist, Spalding's credentials are impeccable -- she attended the prestigious Berklee School of Music and became their youngest-ever faculty member by the time she was 20. Further, she has worked with jazz giants from McCoy Tyner to Joe Lovano, Regina Carter, Pat Metheny, Michel Camilo, Mike Stern and others. But what distinguishes Esperanza from the pack, are her vocals -- singing in English, Spanish and Portuguese, she represents one of the most exciting voices in jazz. Spalding's innovative new CD, Chamber Music Society, combines a classical string trio with a rhythm section and features guests including Milton Nascimento and Gil Goldstein. Talk to anyone who saw her sold-out SFJAZZ show last fall and they'll tell you: don't miss Esperanza.
Blessed with uncanny instrumental chops, a multi-lingual voice that is part angel and part siren and a natural hypnotic beauty, Esperanza Spalding might well be the hope for the future of jazz and instrumental music. By the time she was five, Spalding had taught herself to play the violin and was performing with the Chamber Music Society of Oregon until she left at age fifteen as concertmaster. The gifted 25-year-old bassist, singer and composer released her major label debut, Esperanza, as a young instructor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Revel in the music of Spalding's recently-released, highly-anticipated Chamber Music Society and be the first to preview tracks from her upcoming spring release Radio Music Society.
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Esperanza Spading has created a sensation in the music world, with over 150 performances a year from Austin City Limits to President Obama's 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo. Her 2008 major label debut, Esperanza, rose quickly on the Billboard jazz chart and stayed there for 62 weeks. As a bassist, Spalding's credentials are impeccable -- she attended the prestigious Berklee School of Music and became their youngest-ever faculty member by the time she was 20. Further, she has worked with jazz giants from McCoy Tyner to Joe Lovano, Regina Carter, Pat Metheny, Michel Camilo, Mike Stern and others. But what distinguishes Esperanza from the pack, are her vocals -- singing in English, Spanish and Portuguese, she represents one of the most exciting voices in jazz. Spalding's innovative new CD, Chamber Music Society, combines a classical string trio with a rhythm section and features guests including Milton Nascimento and Gil Goldstein. Talk to anyone who saw her sold-out SFJAZZ show last fall and they'll tell you: don't miss Esperanza.
Blessed with uncanny instrumental chops, a multi-lingual voice that is part angel and part siren and a natural hypnotic beauty, Esperanza Spalding might well be the hope for the future of jazz and instrumental music. By the time she was five, Spalding had taught herself to play the violin and was performing with the Chamber Music Society of Oregon until she left at age fifteen as concertmaster. The gifted 25-year-old bassist, singer and composer released her major label debut, Esperanza, as a young instructor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Revel in the music of Spalding's recently-released, highly-anticipated Chamber Music Society and be the first to preview tracks from her upcoming spring release Radio Music Society.
Bassist, vocalist, and composer Esperanza Spalding is a spellbinding talent whose soulful sound has captivated a vast international audience. The first jazz artist to win the GRAMMY for Best New Artist, she has been a collaborator with jazz giants including Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner and has made an indelible mark as a bandleader, releasing eight chart-topping albums including Chamber Music Society, Radio Music Society, Emily's D+Evolution, 12 Little Spells, and her most recent 2021 release, Songwrights Apothecary Lab. For this performance, she will revisit highlights from her momentous career with a superb band.
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Esperanza Spading has created a sensation in the music world, with over 150 performances a year from Austin City Limits to President Obama's 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo. Her 2008 major label debut, Esperanza, rose quickly on the Billboard jazz chart and stayed there for 62 weeks. As a bassist, Spalding's credentials are impeccable -- she attended the prestigious Berklee School of Music and became their youngest-ever faculty member by the time she was 20. Further, she has worked with jazz giants from McCoy Tyner to Joe Lovano, Regina Carter, Pat Metheny, Michel Camilo, Mike Stern and others. But what distinguishes Esperanza from the pack, are her vocals -- singing in English, Spanish and Portuguese, she represents one of the most exciting voices in jazz. Spalding's innovative new CD, Chamber Music Society, combines a classical string trio with a rhythm section and features guests including Milton Nascimento and Gil Goldstein. Talk to anyone who saw her sold-out SFJAZZ show last fall and they'll tell you: don't miss Esperanza.
Blessed with uncanny instrumental chops, a multi-lingual voice that is part angel and part siren and a natural hypnotic beauty, Esperanza Spalding might well be the hope for the future of jazz and instrumental music. By the time she was five, Spalding had taught herself to play the violin and was performing with the Chamber Music Society of Oregon until she left at age fifteen as concertmaster. The gifted 25-year-old bassist, singer and composer released her major label debut, Esperanza, as a young instructor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Revel in the music of Spalding's recently-released, highly-anticipated Chamber Music Society and be the first to preview tracks from her upcoming spring release Radio Music Society.
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Esperanza Spading has created a sensation in the music world, with over 150 performances a year from Austin City Limits to President Obama's 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo. Her 2008 major label debut, Esperanza, rose quickly on the Billboard jazz chart and stayed there for 62 weeks. As a bassist, Spalding's credentials are impeccable -- she attended the prestigious Berklee School of Music and became their youngest-ever faculty member by the time she was 20. Further, she has worked with jazz giants from McCoy Tyner to Joe Lovano, Regina Carter, Pat Metheny, Michel Camilo, Mike Stern and others. But what distinguishes Esperanza from the pack, are her vocals -- singing in English, Spanish and Portuguese, she represents one of the most exciting voices in jazz. Spalding's innovative new CD, Chamber Music Society, combines a classical string trio with a rhythm section and features guests including Milton Nascimento and Gil Goldstein. Talk to anyone who saw her sold-out SFJAZZ show last fall and they'll tell you: don't miss Esperanza.
Blessed with uncanny instrumental chops, a multi-lingual voice that is part angel and part siren and a natural hypnotic beauty, Esperanza Spalding might well be the hope for the future of jazz and instrumental music. By the time she was five, Spalding had taught herself to play the violin and was performing with the Chamber Music Society of Oregon until she left at age fifteen as concertmaster. The gifted 25-year-old bassist, singer and composer released her major label debut, Esperanza, as a young instructor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Revel in the music of Spalding's recently-released, highly-anticipated Chamber Music Society and be the first to preview tracks from her upcoming spring release Radio Music Society.
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