Few albums in the jazz canon carry the haunting, transportive beauty of Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain. Originally released in 1960, this landmark collaboration between Davis and arranger Gil Evans took fifteen orchestral sessions to record and six months to assemble, drawing from Spanish classical composers like Joaquín Rodrigo and Manuel de Falla, as well as folk and flamenco traditions. The result is a deeply immersive work that Rolling Stone recognized on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, describing its "muted beauty" as containing "enormous passion."
Rather than simply playing Spanish music, Davis and Evans crafted something entirely their own — a "Third Stream" masterpiece that weaves rich classical orchestrations through jazz sensibilities in a way that still feels unlike anything else in the genre. The album opens with an expansive arrangement of the adagio movement from Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, with Davis's flugelhorn guiding listeners through what his biographer called a "quasi-symphonic, quasi-jazz world of sound." This anniversary edition, released on Columbia, is a fitting way to experience one of the most unique and emotionally resonant records Miles Davis ever made.
- Format: Vinyl
- Label: Columbia
- Genre: Jazz
- Release Date: 08/15/2025
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TRACKS
A1. Concierto de Aranjuez
A2. Will O’ the Wisp
B1. The Pan Piper
B2. Saeta
B3. Solea
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