Jazz Articles about Laura-Simone Martin

Meet Bassist Laura Simone-Martin

by Sanford Josephson
July 12, 2022

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, Simone-Martin's mother signed her up for private lessons with Art ...