Miles Davis: Flamenco Sketches
Musicians:
Miles Davis (trumpet), Cannonball Adderley (alto sax), John Coltrane (tenor sax), Bill Evans (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums).
Composed by Miles Davis
.Recorded: New York, April 22, 1959
Rating: 100/100 (learn more)
Miles Davis, artwork by Michael Symonds
After hearing Bill Evans's remarkable “Peace Piece” (1958) for solo piano, Miles Davis re-upped his ex-sideman for two sessions that yielded Kind of Blue. Refashioning Evans's Satiesque ostinato, Miles overlays a revolving series of five scales evoking what Jelly Roll Morton called "the Spanish tinge," something Davis had explored on Miles Ahead (1957) and would again a few months later on his
Sketches of Spain. With gloriously lucid solos all around (especially Coltrane's), “Flamenco Sketches” lasts 9½ minutes, but you want it to go on forever. Which is precisely how long this breathtakingly beautiful masterpiece of modern jazz will live. Forever.
Reviewer: Alan Kurtz
Tags: 1950s jazz · kind of blue · modal jazz
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I am 65 years old now, and this beautiful piece of music still makes me cry. When I heard it for the first time when I was 17 18, it touches me deeply and still it does. great!!!!