Echoes Of Spain – From Segovia and Sabicas to Miles Davis and John Coltrane, Various Artists 3CD Box Set
Various Artists
£24.99
Released February 16, 2024.• 3CD Box set examining the influence on modern artists of the music of Spain.
• With a detailed 36-page booklet tracing its heritage.
• 3CD Box set examining the influence on modern artists of the music of Spain.
• With a detailed 36-page booklet tracing its heritage.
“I’ve always inclined to Spanish music… I got it from the French Impressionists first, and then, of course, from Spanish composers like De Falla.” Gil Evans
‘Sketches of Spain’ was the third album where arranger Gil Evans was called upon to create an entire sound world for Miles Davis. Spanish themes had been in evidence on the first of the series, (‘Miles Ahead’) but ‘Sketches…’ delivered a complete Spanish musical landscape. A formidable challenge that nevertheless proved to be within the powers of Davis and Evans at their artistic peak.
In Downbeat Magazine, Bill Mathieu wrote: “This record is one of the most important musical triumphs our century has yet produced. It brings together under the same aegis two realms that in the past have often worked against one another – the world of the heart and the world of the mind… what is involved here is the unison of ideas with emotion, pre- composition with improvisation, discipline with spontaneity… If there is to be a new jazz, a shape of things to come, then this is the beginning.”
Evans and Davis were scarcely the first modern musicians to be captivated by the mysteries of Spanish music. Davis (with the pianist Bill Evans) had already created the shimmering ‘Flamenco Sketches’ for the imperious ‘Kind Of Blue’ (commercially, the most successful jazz album of all time), while John Coltrane’s inspired response to these explorations would be the labyrinthine, raga-like ‘Olé’.
Maurice Ravel’s Spanish heritage is revealed by his Bolero, inspired by the minimalist repetition that is at the heart of Flamenco and much admired by such pop luminaries as Beatles producer George Martin; Frank Zappa of the Mothers of Invention and the late Jeff Beck (‘Beck’s Bolero’); while Claude Debussy sculpted the sensuous sonic-postcard that is Iberia, the central panel of the ‘Images’ triptych. Django Reinhardt played the introspective ‘Echoes of Spain’ to the master guitarist Andrés Segovia, who, dazzled, demanded a score, only for Django to shrug that the piece was, “merely an improvisation”.
TRACK LISTING
| Artists | |
|---|---|
| Barcode | 5013929337138 |
| Format | |
| Genre |
1 Flamenco Sketches MILES DAVIS SEXTET
MILES DAVIS WITH GIL EVANS ORCHESTRA ‘Sketches of Spain’
2 Concierto de Aranjuez - Adagio
3 Will O'The Wisp
4 The Pan Piper
5 Saeta
6 Solea
MILES DAVIS WITH GIL EVANS ORCHESTRA from ‘Miles Ahead’
7 Maids of Cadiz
8 Blues for Pablo
9 Olé JOHN COLTRANE
10 Echoes of Spain DJANGO REINHARDT
DISC TWO
1 Alborada del gracioso MAURICE RAVEL
MAURICE RAVEL - Rapsodie espagnole
Orchestre National De L'Opéra De Paris / Conductor: Manuel Rosenthal
2 Prélude à la nuit
3 Malagueña
4 Habanera
5 Feria
MANUEL DE FALLA - Nights in the Gardens of Spain National Orchestra Of Spain / Conductor: Ataúlfo Argenta.
Gonzalo Soriano: piano
6 En el Generalife
7 Danza lejana
8 En los jardines de la Sierra de Córdoba
CLAUDE DEBUSSY - Images for Orchestra, No. 2 : Ibéria Orchestre National De L'Opéra De Paris / Conductor: Manuel Rosenthal
9 Par les rues et par les chemins
10 Les parfums de la nuit / Le matin d'un jour de fête
11 Boléro MAURICE RAVEL
Orchestre National De L'Opéra De Paris / Conductor: Manuel Rosenthal
DISC THREE
1 Wind Quintet - First movement ROBERTO GERHARD The London Wind Quintet
2 En Los Trigales JOAQUÍN RODRIGO
Julian Bream: guitar
3 Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte MAURICE RAVEL Julian Bream: guitar
ISSAC ALBÉNIZ
Alicia de Larrocha: piano
4 Evocación, from Iberia, Book I
5 Jérez, from Iberia, Book 4
6 Duelo De Campanas SABICAS
7 Danza del molinero MANUEL DE FALLA
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Conductor: Ernest Ansermet
8 Andante from Concierto del Sur MANUEL PONCE
Andrés Segovia: guitar Symphony of the Air / Conductor: Enrique Jorda
9 Homenaje "Le tombeau de Debussy" MANUEL DE FALLA
Andrés Segovia: guitar
10 Fandanguillo JOAQUIN TURINA Andrés Segovia: guitar
11 La sérénade interrompue, from Préludes, Book I CLAUDE DEBUSSY Walter Gieseking: piano
12 Andaluza, from Danzas españolas ENRIQUE GRANADOS The London Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Ataúlfo Argenta
13 Quejas o la maja y el ruiseñor, from Goyescas Alicia de Larrocha: piano
14 Final movement, from
Concierto De Castilla FEDERICO TORROBA
Renata Tarragó: guitar. Orquesta De Conciertos De Madrid / Conductor: Jesús Arámbarri
15 Adagio, from Concierto de Aranjuez JOAQUÍN RODRIGO Renata Tarragó: guitar. Orquesta de Conciertos de Madrid / Conductor: Odón Alonso
16 El Testament d'Amèlia MIGUEL LLOBET Alirio Díaz: introduction and guitar
