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356) Sketches of Spain

Miles Davis

Posted Nov 01, 0003 12:00 AM

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This collaboration between Davis and arranger Gil Evans took fifteen orchestral sessions to record and six months to assemble. It wasn't an attempt to play Spanish music but to suggest it; its muted beauty contains enormous passion. But is it jazz? Davis responded, "It's music, and I like it."

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