Flamenco sketches
Flamenco Sketches (German: Flamenco sketches ) is a jazz composition by Miles Davis and Bill Evans . The ballad was first released on the Miles Davis album Kind of Blue in 1959.
The composition
The piece has no written melody and is rather defined by a set of chord changes improvised across the various modes of the main scale of each tonality. Peter Niklas Wilson wrote: "For him, composition was no longer a precise pre-structuring of a definitive sound conception, but an impulse for a musical process with an uncertain outcome." The Spanish sound of the piece is explained by the use of the Phrygian-dominant scale (also Spanish - called the Phrygian scale), a heptatonic scale used in Spanish flamenco .
Bill Evans described the piece in the liner notes as follows: "Flamenco Sketches is a series of five scales that can be played as long as the soloist wishes until he has played through the series." Martin Spring wrote: " Modal jazz, for example, shifted the architecture away from predictable chord changes and, as we can see from Evans' note, away from a given duration of a solo. "
When the piece was first recorded, Jimmy Cobb played the drums with brooms , which underlines the calm and relaxed nature of the piece.
effect
Mark Brüggemeier wrote on rollingstone.de about the effect of Flamenco Sketches on the collaboration between Gil Evans and Miles Davis at Sketches of Spain : “Davis started his third collaboration with the Canadian arranger Gil Evans. He wanted to pick up where he left off with 'Flamenco Sketches' on 'Kind Of Blue'. "
reception
Alan Kurtz wrote on jazz.com about the original version of the song: “With all-round wonderfully clear solos (especially Coltranes), Flamenco Sketches lasts nine minutes, but you want it to go on forever. Exactly as long as this breathtakingly beautiful masterpiece of modern jazz will live. Forever."
More shots
Joe Henderson recorded the track for his album So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles) . Chris Botti recorded the piece for his album Chris Botti in Boston in 2009 and also plays the piece regularly in live performances.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ It is the fifth track on Kind of Blue and is the only ballad on the album besides Blue in Green . An alternate version of Flamenco Sketches is featured on many new editions of Kind of Blue as the sixth title. The first recording was made in Columbia Records 30 th Street Studio in New York City on April 22, 1959, Cannonball Adderley , John Coltrane , Bill Evans, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb .
- ↑ Peter Niklas Wilson: Miles Davis: His life, his music, his records , Oreos publishing house, ISBN 3923657625
- ↑ "'Flamenco Sketches' is a series of five scales, each to be played as long as the soloist wishes until he has completed the series."
- ↑ Modular Services in Inter-Organizational Networks: Three Metaphors , by Martin Spring (PDF file; 137 kB)
- ↑ "So, modal jazz shifted the architecture away from predictable chord changes and, as we see from Evans' note, away from predetermined solo lengths."
- ↑ Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain , Review at rollingstone ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Review of the piece, by Alan Kurtz ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Review of the album So Near, So Far (Musing for Miles) on allmusic
- ^ Review of the Chris Botti album in Boston at allmusic
- ↑ Warm Tunes for the Botti and Spirit at wsj.com
