Esperanza Spalding live in San Sebastian July 23, 2009 playing Wild is The Wind. Some of my other favorite versions of this song were done by Ahmad Jamal (here), Barbara Streisand (here) and Nina Simone (here).
What I particularly like about Esperanza's version is the lengthy bowed introduction. If you don't know the song really well, it's hard to hear what she's doing. Just relax, listen and let her surprise you when the song starts. I love this approach to Jazz (the standard Jazz format, play the song, improvise, play the song and out) is pretty confining. I'm glad she's breaking the mold.
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