Esperanza Spalding
New Jersey Performing Arts Center
1 Center St
Newark, NJ 07102
Jan 29, 2023
7:00 PM EST
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Jazz pianist and composer Fred Hersch and jazz vocalist esperanza spalding celebrate the release of their album Alive at the Village Vanguard, recorded at the legendary club for a packed and rapturous audience. Fifteen-time GRAMMY® nominee Hersch, called by The New Yorker "a living legend" - and multiple GRAMMY® winner spalding, whom NPR cites as "the 21st Century?s first jazz genius" - present an evening of songs from the Great American Songbook, music from Brazil and jazz compositions including several penned by Hersch. The remarkable chemistry of Hersch and spalding's partnership is deep, truly exhilarating and not to be missed. Produced by NJPAC and Seth Abramson, Rabbit Moon Productions, Inc.
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January 16th 2024
IT WAS SO FUXKING GOOD OMG I HAD GREAT FRIENDS WITH ME AND MET GREAT PEOPLE AND THE MUSIC WAS SO SLAY AND I LOVED IT ALL
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Esperanza Spalding Biography
esperanza spalding (a.k.a. irma nejando) is an eaabibacliitoti* artist, trained and initiated in the North American (masculine) jazz lineage and tradition. Her work interweaves various combinations of instrumental music, improvisation, singing, composition, poetry, dance, therapeutic research, storytelling, teaching, restorative urban land & artist-sanctuary custodianship, and growing in love as a daughter, sister, cousin, niece, auntie, great-auntie, friend.
She is co-founder and curator of Prismid Inc., a 501c3 that ushers and stewards restorative artist residency & workshop space in Portland, Oregon.
With her dance company Off Brand gOdds (co-founded with Antonio Brown) and the Songwrights Apothecary Lab she leads multi-week performance, workshop, teaching, and therapeutic-arts research residencies.
*European-African ancestored being influenced by American cultures living in Indigenous Territories of Turtle Island
Read MoreShe is co-founder and curator of Prismid Inc., a 501c3 that ushers and stewards restorative artist residency & workshop space in Portland, Oregon.
With her dance company Off Brand gOdds (co-founded with Antonio Brown) and the Songwrights Apothecary Lab she leads multi-week performance, workshop, teaching, and therapeutic-arts research residencies.
*European-African ancestored being influenced by American cultures living in Indigenous Territories of Turtle Island
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