Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain - 2x 1-step 45rpm (3 sides, Concierto the Aranjuez is single-sided) - AAA. Special Edition: 1-Step 45rpm Series, with packaging in rigid gatefold. Mastering from the original tapes, with a 100% analog domain pathway. To get the very best.
Customers consider this Miles Davis album a classic, praising its beautiful arrangements by Gil Evans and ultra-low noise floor sound quality. Sketches of Spain is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released on July 18, 1960, by Columbia Records. Recording took place between November 1959 and March 1960 at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City. Read more from Miles on the Miles Davis website at www.milesdavis.com/albums/sketches-of-spain
Miles Davis's impact on jazz is almost incalculable. From his early days as a sideman for Charlie Parker, through his ground-breaking Birth of the Cool sessions, to his stunning small groups of the 1950s and 1960s, through to his electric renaissance, the trumpeter, bandleader and composer has left a deep mark on all who came after. He is one of jazz's true giants. Sketches of Spain, though one of Davis's most commercially successful sessions, is also one of his most controversial. Re-teaming with arranger and composer Gil Evans, who played such a pivotal role in Davis's 1949 Birth of the Cool recordings, Davis recorded a series of large group albums beginning in the late 1950s, including Porgy and Bess, Miles Ahead, and Quiet Nights. Sketches of Spain, with its emphasis on flamenco, rich orchestrations and relaxed tempos is certainly one of Davis's most mellow recordings (he even works out on fluegelhorn), and proved to have broad appeal. To some critics, however, the project was "elevated elevator music".
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