Music On Vinyl - MOVLP692 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - Mono
The conception of Sketches Of Spain can be placed in the 'most melodic' era of Miles Davis's work, being one of his most accessible and less improvisational albums which broke out of the constraints of Jazz as a genre. This is one of the four albums where Miles and Gil Evans collaborated with a small orchestra of horns and percussion.
Sketches of Spain is fueled by Spanish melodies - "El Concierto de Arajuez" by JoaquÃÂn Rodrigo and "El Amor Brujo" by Manuel de Falla - that fascinated Davis to the point he needed to get into them and go beyond, with Evans constructing a musical painting of a land to which he had never ventured. As Miles said, ''It's music, and I like it".
Now available in glorious mono.
SIDE A
1. CONCIERTO DE ARANJUEZ (ADAGIO)
2. WILL O' THE WISP
SIDE B
1. THE PAN PIPER
2. SAETA
3. SOLEA
Musicians:
Miles Davis, trumpet, flugelhorn
Johnny Coles, trumpet
Paul Chambers, bass
Jimmy Cobb, drums
Elvin Jones, percussion
Gil Evans, arranger, conductor
Danny Bank, bass clarinet
Bill Barber, tuba
John Barrows, French horn
Albert Block, flute
James Buffington, French horn
Eddie Caine, flute, flugelhorn
Earl Chapin, French horn
Harold Feldman, clarinet, flute, oboe
Bernie Glow, trumpet
Dick Hixon, trombone
Taft Jordan, trumpet
Jack Knitzer, bassoon
Jose Mangual, percussion
Jimmy McAllister, tuba
Tony Miranda, French horn
Louis Mucci, trumpet
Romeo Penque, oboe
Janet Putnam, harp
Frank Rehak, trombone
Ernie Royal, trumpet
Joe Singer, French horn
