Various Artists: Echoes Of Spain - From Segovia and Sabicas to Miles Davis and John Coltrane, 3CD Box Set

3CD Box set examining the influence on modern artists of the music of Spain. With a detailed 36-page booklet tracing its heritage. œIve 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: œThis 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 Coltranes inspired response to these explorations would be the labyrinthine, raga-like ˜Olé. Maurice Ravels 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 (Becks 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 DISC ONE/ 1 Flamenco Sketches MILES DAVIS SEXTET/ MILES DAVIS WITH GIL EVANS ORCHESTRA ˜Sketches of Spain/ 2 Concierto de Aranjuez - Adagio/ 3 Will OThe 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 LOpéra 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 LOpéra De Paris / Conductor: Manuel Rosenthal/ 9 Par les rues et par les chemins/ 10 Les parfums de la nuit / Le matin dun jour de fête/ 11 Boléro MAURICE RAVEL/ Orchestre National De LOpéra 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 dAmèlia MIGUEL LLOBET Alirio Díaz: introduction and guitar/