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Instrument: Violin
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by Sanford Josephson
This article first appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. As a fifth grader at Lawrence Intermediate School in Lawrenceville, NJ, Laura Simone-Martin was planning to play the cello. But her mother, Dr. Trineice Robinson-Martin, who teaches Vocal Jazz at Princeton University, showed her a video of bassist Esperanza Spalding performing at the White House. I saw her in her Afro, playing and singing. I just saw myself and thought that I could be like her." After that, ...
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