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.
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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Album: Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
Label: AudioNautes Recordings - AN-2517
Format: 2x45rpm, One-Step, Stereo, Remastered, Limited,
Country: Italy
Genre: Jazz
Tracks:
1. Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio)
2. Will O' The Wisp
3. The Pan Piper
4. Saeta
5. Solea
Musicians:
- Miles Davis: arranger, trumpet, flugelhorn
- Gil Evans: arranger, conductor
- Johnny Coles: trumpet
- Bernie Glow: trumpet
- Taft Jordan: trumpet
- Louis Mucci: trumpet
- Ernie Royal: trumpet
- John Barrows: French horn
- James Buffington: French horn
- Earl Chapin: French horn
- Tony Miranda: French horn
- Joe Singer: French horn
- Dick Hixon: trombone
- Frank Rehak: trombone
- Bill Barber: tuba
- Jimmy McAllister: tuba
- Danny Bank: bass clarinet
- Albert Block: flute
- Eddie Caine: flute
- Harold Feldman: clarinet, flute, oboe
- Romeo Penque: oboe
- Jack Knitzer: bassoon
- Paul Chambers: bass
- Jimmy Cobb: drums
- Elvin Jones: percussion
- José Mangual Sr.: percussion (on track 1)
- Elden "Buster" Bailey: percussion (tracks 2–5)
- Janet Putnam: harp
Recorded November 15 & 20, 1959 and March 10, 1960
Columbia 30th Street, New York City, USA - Recording Engineer: Fred Plaut
Original session produced by Teo Macero - Originally released Columbia Records © (July 18, 1960
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