Miles Davis

• 180-GRAM VIRGIN VINYL

• THE COMPLETE ALBUM + 1 BONUS TRACK

Sketches of Spain was Miles Davis and Gil Evans’ third conceptual album (they had worked together back in the late 1940s on the celebrated “Birth of the Cool” nonet sessions and would record their first conceptual LP Miles Ahead in 1957, followed by their adaptation of George Gershwin’s music for Porgy and Bess in 1958). The trumpeter stated in his autobiography that the whole thing came out of listening to Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo’s “Concierto de Aranjuez”.

PERSONNEL:

• MILES DAVIS - (trumpet & flugelhorn) on all tracks
• With orchestra arranged and conducted by GIL EVANS

• ON 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. José Mangual (perc).
• New York, November 20, 1959.

• ON A2 & B1-B4: 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, prob. José Mangual (perc).
• New York, March 10, 1960.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. CONCIERTO DE ARANJUEZ ..... 16:25
• A2. WILL O’ THE WISP ..... 3:52

• SIDE B
• B1. THE PAN PIPER ..... 4:02
• B2. SAETA ..... 5:02
• B3. SOLEA ..... 12:12
• B4. SONG OF OUR COUNTRY ..... 3:27 (*)