Weekend Ideas: May 15, 2015

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Bassist/singer Esperanza Spalding embraces a restless creativity, having shifted from small-combo Brazilian samba and string-stoked chamber jazz to big-band electric funk and jamming with Prince since she won a Grammy for Best New Artist over Mumford & Sons, Florence + the Machine, Drake and Justin Bieber. Spalding’s not about to stop, slipping into the Paradise Rock Club on Saturday with her latest project, Emily’s D+Evolution, where she’s made herself over with glasses and braids and incorporated poetry and movement into her new band. And there’s more jazz in store on Friday with great pianists commanding each of the city’s main jazz clubs. Berklee-trained Yoko Miwa gets elegant and fluid with her trio at the Regattabar while the venerable Donal Fox brings his classical/jazz blend to Scullers with his Inventions Quartet featuring vibraphonist Warren Wolf.

UK rock fans get a double dose as well this weekend with energetic crowd-pleasers Kaiser Chiefs at the Paradise on Friday and the Bobby Gillespie-fronted Primal Scream at Royale in support of its first album in five years, More Light. On the local-band front, HarpoonFest takes over the seaport Harpoon Brewery both Friday and Saturday with a sweet lineup including Jenny Dee & the Deelinquents, Nemes, the Rationales, Sidewalk Driver and Bearstronaut. Here’s the full music lineup for HarpoonFest. And Mastodon pumps its ambitious metal roots at House of Blues on Sunday.


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