There’s no reason for Thundercat to be as charming and affable as he is.
An artist of his stature — one who can command a performance venue as vast as the Salt Shed — can simply say hello to audiences and power through his songs. And his jazz-forward music doesn’t necessarily signal or require vivacious and lively crowd work. Yet Stephen Lee Bruner, who performs under the stage name Thundercat, is here to engage his audiences with the music and the meaning behind the music. This is not a performer who wants or needs to hide in the shadows.
Many audience members, including the two men next to me, even took out their phones and recorded the entirety of each song, watching the performance through the same handheld screen in which they likely first discovered him. But I was most intrigued by how clearly rooted Thundercat still is and always will be to the traditions of jazz. During the beginning of the show, he dived into a suite of instrumental-heavy songs like “Interstellar Love” and “How Sway.
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