"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 9/23/24)
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Real Live Certified
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Critic Consensus
Based on 22 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Esperanza Spalding is rated as an impressive live performer, with many notable strengths. Esperanza Spalding concert reviews describe live shows and performances as masterful, eclectic, evocative, graceful, and theatrical.
ON TOUR
Arts Centre, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, Australia (October 27); Billboard Live Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (November 4)
Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States (10/18/1984)
Bio
Born in 1984, bassist, singer and composer Esperanza Spalding began playing in small jazz and blues venues around her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Soon after picking up the acoustic bass at the late age of 14, she helped form Noise For Pretend, an eclectic band fusing jazz and pop for which she sang and played bass (often simultaneously).
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Critic Concert Reviews
Nippertown (USA)
February 8, 2023
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Esperanza Spalding is an artist that refuses to be pigeonholed.
Spalding takes the stage in a black and white tent, her head poking out the top like a poorly judged Barbie cake in an afro to kick off an evening of riffed on selections from D+Evolution.
Only at the young age of 28 she has already released two critically acclaimed albums has received a 2011 Grammy Award for Best New Artist and has undeniably paved the way for new and aspiring jazz artists.
That year she brought her album Chamber Music Society to the London Jazz Festival and this time around she presented its companion piece Radio Music Society.
Insiders knew Spalding from some intriguing crossover ventures revealing a jazz/classical eclecticism that was musical and intelligent rather than opportunistic.
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