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Revitalize your jazz collection with exclusive liner notes by renowned jazz critic Brian Morton of the Penguin Guide to Jazz and Paris’s prestigious jazz magazine.
Sketches of Spain since its release in 1960 has been one of the most widely distributed and popular of all jazz records. Even people who dont collect jazz records tend to have a copy tucked away somewhere. –PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ
Sketches of Spain remains, and rightly so, one of the jewels of Miles Davis discography. –JAZZ MAGAZINE
PERSONNEL:
- MILES DAVIS, trumpet & flugelhorn on all tracks
- With orchestra arranged and conducted by GIL EVANS
- ON TRACK A1:
- Bernie Glow, Taft Jordan, Louis Mucci, Ernie Royal (tp), Dick Hixson, Frank Rehak (tb), John Barrows, Jimmy Buffington, Earl Chapin (fhr), Jimmy McAllister (tu), Romeo Penque (oboe), Harold Feldman (oboe, b-cl), Jack Knitzer (bassoon), Al Block, Eddie Caine (fl), Danny Bank (b-cl), Janet Putnam (harp), Paul Chambers (b), Jimmy Cobb (d), Elvin Jones (perc), prob. Jose Manguel (perc).
- New York, November 20, 1959.
- ON TRACKS A2 & B1-B3:
- Ernie Royal, Bernie Glow, Johnny Coles, Louis Mucci (tp), Dick Hixson, Frank Rehak (tb), Joe Singer, Tony Miranda, Jimmy Buffington (fhr), Bill Barber (tu), Romeo Penque (oboe), Jack Knitzer (bassoon), Al Block, Harold Feldman (fl), Danny Bank (b-cl), Janet Putnam (harp), Paul Chambers (b), Jimmy Cobb (d), Elvin Jones (perc), prob. Jose Manguel (perc).
- New York, March 10, 1960.
- (*) B4. Bonus track: MILES DAVIS (tp) with orchestra conducted & arranged by GIL EVANS.
- Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, May 19, 1961.
TRACKS:
- SIDE A:
- A1. CONCIERTO DE ARANJUEZ
- A2. WILL O THE WISP
- SIDE B:
- B1. THE PAN PIPER
- B2. SAETA
- B3. SOLEA
- B4. SPRING IS HERE (*)
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