Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain Miles Davis
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Sketches of Spain was Miles Davis and Gil Evans third conceptual album (they had worked together back in the late 1940s on the celebrated Birth of the Cool nonet sessions and would record their first conceptual LP Miles Ahead in 1957, followed by their adaptation of George Gershwin's music for Porgy and Bess in 1958). The Spanish-tinged album received a five-star rating in Down Beat, with critic Bill Mathieu stating that, This recording is one of the most important musical triumphs that this century has yet produced. It brings together under the same aegis two realms that in the past have often worked against one another the world of the heart and the world of the mind. To Davis and Evans goes not the distinction of five or 10 or a zillion stars in a review rating, but the burden of continuing to show us the way.
In Sketches of Spain , added Nat Hentoff, Davis and Evans have gone on to challenge themselves even further than on previous albums. A brooding, dramatic Spanish sound and feeling pervade all the works on this record. Davis, I believe, has rarely if ever soloed with such concentration of emotion, as in several selections of this album, particularly in Concierto de Aranjuez and Saeta . What is most remarkable is the surprising authenticity of phrasing and timbre with which he plays. It is as if Miles had been born of Andalusian gypsies but, instead of picking up the guitar, had decided to make a trumpet the expression of his cante hondo ( deep song ). And Evans also indicates a thorough absorption of the Spanish musical temper which he has transmuted into his own uncompromisingly personal style.
Track List
Side 1
1. Concierto De Aranjuez
2. Will O' The Wisp
3. The Pan Piper
4. Saeta
5. Solea
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