esperanza spalding: The Music With/In Me: Past, Present, Future Tour at Murat Theatre

She’s an improvisational storyteller. She’s charming, imaginative, and plays without a safety net. She has good taste and delivers music packed with emotion. Her vocal range is astounding.

Singer, bassist, songwriter, and composer esperanza spalding mesmerizes; she has a buoyant spirit and playfulness on stage; she redefines everything you might know about music.

When multi-instrumentalist esperanza spalding smashed into the music industry in 2006 with her inventive combinations and reimagining of jazz, funk, rock, musical theater, and beyond, the writing was on the wall. Her third studio album, “Chamber Music Society” shot to the top of the charts and won esperanza spalding her first Grammy Award as best new artist. Since then, she has racked up five Grammy Awards and was also appointed Professor of the Practice of Music at Harvard University.

esperanza spalding likes living on the edge in her music. Not only does she perform with sensitivity and reverence that leaves an audience totally spellbound, but she is also a magnificent improvisational storyteller. Her deep love for all music, especially improvisation-based Afro-American music, is evident in her mesmerizing improvisation that keeps an audience on the edge of their seats. esperanza spalding rarely sings standards – she always goes back to her roots as a determined original musician.

In the words of Fred Hersch, whom she has shared a stage with, “She’s a fearless vocalist and is one of the biggest talents I know. She’s got a huge reach in her intellectual knowledge and is a big thinker in both her projects and in her outlook.”

The Murat Theatre, inside the beautiful Old National Centre on North and Jersey streets, has been known to bring the hottest shows to Indianapolis for over a century. esperanza spalding’s fun concert, which promises to pull the audience in from the start, will be no different. The venue is not only the home of the oldest extant stage house in Indianapolis, but is also known for its incredible selection of concerts and the wide variety of artists that grace the stage. It has a magnificent amount of areas for hosting events, as well as a 2,000-seat concert hall and a 2,500-seat performing arts theatre.