Description
Not Now Music: Miles Davis — Sketches Of Spain (Remastered 2-CD)
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Product Details:
- Product Type: Audio CD
- Brand / Label: Not Now Music
- Artist: Miles Davis
- Title: Sketches Of Spain (plus bonus album)
- Compilation Year: 2011
- UPC: 5060143493850
- Catalog Number: NOT2CD385
- Genre: Jazz
- Style: Cool jazz, modal jazz, third stream
- Condition: New / Factory Sealed
Product Features
- Format: CD
- Discs: 2
- Disc 1: Sketches Of Spain — approx. 41 minutes
- Disc 2: Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants — approx. 42 minutes
- Mastering: Digitally remastered
- Arrangements: Gil Evans (disc 1)
- Made in the EU
- Language: Instrumental
Overview
Two essential Miles Davis records on one remastered set. Disc one is Sketches of Spain, his 1960 collaboration with arranger Gil Evans — the orchestral, Spanish-tinged session that turned Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez" into a sixteen-minute jazz meditation and remains one of the most beautiful things either man ever put to tape.
The pairing is smart. Disc two, Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants, comes from the mid-1950s Prestige sessions and works as a perfect counterweight — small-group, hard-swinging, and built around a famous studio summit with Thelonious Monk, Milt Jackson, Percy Heath and Kenny Clarke. The "'Round Midnight" date adds John Coltrane, Red Garland and Philly Joe Jones.
So you get both sides of Davis at once: the painterly orchestral side with Evans, and the lean combo side with the leading bop players of the day. The remastering keeps the original mixes intact while cleaning up the sound for current systems.
For anyone building a jazz collection, this is a generous, affordable way to own two cornerstone recordings together.
Interesting Facts
- Sketches of Spain was recorded at Columbia 30th Street Studio in November 1959 and March 1960, arranged and conducted by Gil Evans.
- The opening "Concierto de Aranjuez" adapts the slow movement of Joaquín Rodrigo's guitar concerto, reimagined for Davis's flugelhorn and a large ensemble.
- Disc one's personnel reads like an orchestra: trumpets, trombones, French horns, tuba, flutes, oboe, bassoon, harp and percussion, with Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums.
- Disc two captures the legendary 1954 Christmas Eve session that paired Davis with Thelonious Monk at Rudy Van Gelder's studio.
- The "'Round Midnight" track features an early recorded meeting of Davis and John Coltrane, two of jazz's most influential figures.
- This Not Now Music edition was released in 2011, compiling both albums from their original Columbia and Prestige sources.
Track Listing
Disc 1 — Sketches Of Spain
- Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio) — 16:24
- Will O' The Wisp — 3:52
- The Pan Piper — 3:58
- Saeta — 5:02
- Solea — 12:18
Disc 2 — Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants
- The Man I Love — 7:58
- Swing Spring — 10:45
- 'Round Midnight — 5:24
- Bemsha Swing — 9:32
- The Man I Love — 8:29
Publishers
This compilation released 2011 by Not Now Music Limited, London (catalog NOT2CD385). Disc 1 originally on Columbia Records (CL 1480), produced by Teo Macero and Irving Townsend; disc 2 originally on Prestige Records (PRLP 7150), produced by Bob Weinstock. Made in the EU.
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