Name: Sketches of Spain
Brand: Miles Davis

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27256

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Limited edition

Release date

2023-05-19

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Miles Davis

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Jazz

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Poll Winner Records

Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and one of the most important figures in jazz music history. Miles Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in his five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz. Born on May 26, 1926 in Alton, Illinois, USA and passed away on September 28, 1991 in Santa Monica, California at the age of 65. He is best known for his seminal modern jazz album "Kind of Blue" (1959), which remains the highest selling jazz album of all time with six million copies sold.Miles Davis studied at an academic school for musicians in NYC where he met Charlie Parker and they started playing together from 1945. In 1948, Miles Davis formed his own ensembles and collaborated with Gil Evans to create The Miles Davis Nonet. Their recordings from 1949 to 1950 resulted in the album "Birth of the Cool" (1957) and laid the foundation for their future collaborations.A pioneer of 'Hard Bop' in the mid-1950s, Miles Davis constantly pushed boundaries throughout his career. In the late 1960s, he ventured into experimenting with electronic instruments and incorporating rock and funk rhythms into his music. Despite health problems leading to a hiatus from playing in the mid-1970s, he made a comeback with an 'electronical' sound in 1980.

The complete original album Sketches of Spain, the third collaboration between Miles Davis and Gil Evans, following 'Miles Ahead'and 'Porgy and Bess'. As a bonus to this masterpiece, we have included three other tunes previously recorded by Miles, on which the Spanish feeling is also evident and which, in a sense, foreshadow the making of Sketches of Spain. Includes a 24-page comprehensive booklet. 5-Stars Down Beat (original review) "This recording is one of the most important musical triumphs that this 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. To Davis and Evans goes not the distinction of five or ten or a zillion stars in a review rating, but the burden of continuing to show us theway." (Bill Mathieu)

Sketches of Spain

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