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Esperanza Spalding to join McCoy Tyner for New Year’s performance

Kevin Johnson by Kevin Johnson
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Esperanza SpaldingEsperanza Spalding will be joining legendary jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, along with Ravi Coltrane and Francisco Mela for a run of six nights, including New Years Eve, at Yoshi’s in Oakland.

Tyner rose to fame as a member of John Coltrane’s quartet and has been a staple of the jazz community ever since. Spalding, who is the youngest professor ever to teach at Berklee, has been gaining fame from her phenomenal bass playing and singing.

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