Esperanza Spalding Announces Tour Dates And 12-Night Residency At Famed Blue Note NYC

Embracing her jazz-club roots, Esperanza Spalding announced several 2025 dates including a 12-night residency at Blue Note NYC beginning Feb. 18. Spalding’s itinerary also includes dates in Knoxville, TN, New Orleans, Salina, KS, and Europe.

The intimate performances will feature songs from her broad discography, accompanied by some of jazz’s brightest young stars and surprise guests. Spalding will perform in a quartet with frequent collaborators Morgan Guerin (bass, saxophone, keys, voice), Eric Doob (drums, voice, tracks, percussions) and Matthew Stevens (guitar, voice, bass).

The sets will feature music including recent cuts from 12 Little Spells and Songwrights Apothecary Lab as well as her collaborative album with Milton Nascimento, Milton + esperanza. Released by Concord Records in August 2024, Milton + esperanza earned a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album and was produced and arranged by Spalding.

The Blue Note residency runs from Feb. 18-23 and Feb. 25-March 2, and will be Spalding’s first residency of concerts in NYC in several years.

Opened in 1981 by owner Danny Bensusan, the 300-cap venue in Greenwich Village has earned a reputation as one of the premiere jazz clubs in the world. Format legends who have called it home include Sarah Vaughn, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Stanley Turrentine, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown and Tito Puente. There are now Blue Note jazz clubs and restaurants found around the world including Hawaii, Napa, Tokyo, Nagoya, Rio, Milan and Beijing with one scheduled to open in Los Angeles this year.

Esperanza Spalding Tour Dates:

Feb 18-23, Feb 25-March 2 – New York, NY, Blue Note (8:00 and 10:30 PM sets) 

March 28 – Knoxville, TN, Big Ears

April 24 – New Orleans, LA, Orpheum Theater

April 25 – Salina, KS, Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts 

May 21 – Berlin, Germany, Boulez Saal

May 24 – Antwerp, Belgium, DE SINGEL International Arts Center