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Sketches of Spain: Miles Davis, Gil Evans

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Rating: - miles ahead

love this album, very unique sound, and very different to Miles's
other stuff. Great atmosphere. Storytelling with sound.
Highly recommended.

Rating: - miles did much better then this...

....to play "aranjuez" seemed to be a good idea..
but playing wrong notes at dramatical important places just spoiled it.
sorry, cannot listen to this one.

Rating: - Unbelievably brilliant

I discovered this recently and it is just breath taking. I am not a great Miles Davis fan, but this is unlike anything I have heard of his before, I assume that is down to Gil Evans arrangements. I would even recommend this to people who are not jazz fans. It has such a strong atmosphere and is a real listening experience.

Rating: - Miles Davis - CD - Sketches of Spain

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Rating: - Sketches of Cheese

Takes a brooding, atmospheric and understatedly menacing classic and turns it into a series of out-takes from a scratchy 1960s spy thriller.

Kind of Blue is a classic album. Bitches Brew is a classic album. Even Tutu has its moments. But this version of Aranjuez is sonic kitsch of the first water. It's the musical equivalent of a red sofa with spindly 50s-style legs. It's as simmeringly Iberian as Richard Branson is a virgin.

If you like severely restrained big band parping you'll probably think it's the best thing since Herb Alpert.

But a jazz classic? If you listen very, very hard, you can maybe persuade yourself it's some kind of proto-ECM semi-ambient soup of something or other. Slot in an embryo Garbarek for Miles and it makes a twisted kind of Mexican border-patrol chiuaua-juggling sense.

Only - not much. Because it's not really jazz. It's not Latin. It's not classical. It's not ethnic.

I don't know what it is. It sounds like a Tom & Jerry soundtrack with the tempo stuck at Largo. I don't understand why it's supposed to be a milestone. I'm genuinely mystified by this album's reputation.

Pretty much everything else Miles did was miles better.

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