Miles Davis: Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio)
Track
Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio)
Artist
Miles Davis (trumpet, flugelhorn)
CD
Sketches of Spain (Sony 1207)
Musicians:
Miles Davis (trumpet, flugelhorn),
backed by a 21-piece orchestra featuring Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums), Elvin Jones (percussion)
.Composed by Joaquin Rodrigo. Arranged and conducted by Gil Evans
.Recorded: New York, November 20, 1959
Rating: 100/100 (learn more)
Miles Davis, photo by Herb Snitzer
Concierto de Aranjuez (1939), directed its composer, “should be only as strong as a butterfly, and as dainty as a veronica.” Twenty years later, butterfly Davis and veronica Evans pollinated the greatest jazz-meets-classical flowering ever. Evans's orchestration is stupendous, but Miles's playing—alternating trumpet (first open, later Harmon-muted) with low-register flugelhorn—transcends even that for hushed, goose-bump drama. "Everybody in the whole studio," participant Elvin Jones recalled, "including engineers, janitors, and everyone else—they were just awed. And it was because Miles rose above himself. It was one of his greatest performances. I thought it was magnificent.” It still is.
Reviewer: Alan Kurtz
Tags: 1950s jazz · big band · classical jazz
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