“Two people I can always look to for inspiration are Wayne Shorter and Stevie Wonder. “I get bored really easily, but when you’re touring a record for the year, you go with the arrangements that work the best,” Spalding says, her words spilling out in a torrent. So far, she hasn’t felt constrained by expectations, instead finding inspiration in artists who have balanced popular success with creative freedom. ![]() She’s found that many people coming to her shows are looking for a performance that tracks closely to her recordings. While she’s only got one foot in the world of popular music, Spalding already is navigating the musical challenges faced by jazz musicians who cross over. (Wednesday’s show at Santa Cruz’s Kuumbwa Jazz Center has been canceled so that Spalding can perform at a White House tribute to Stevie Wonder.) ![]() She also gives a Lively Arts “informance” next Thursday, playing and talking about her music at the Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View. 27 at Dinkelspiel Auditorium for Stanford Lively Arts. “One of the things I’m always exploring is how to express all these new ideas, concepts and sounds in a way that they’ll be accessible and well received by an audience,” says Spalding, who performs with her quartet featuring pianist Leonardo Genovese, guitarist Ricardo Vogt and drummer Otis Brown on Feb.
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