Miles Davis - Concierto de Aranjuez (2/2)

Concierto de Aranjuez

Album:
Sketches of Spain (1960)

Written by:
Joaquín Rodrigo

Personnel:
Miles Davis — flugelhorn, trumpet
Gil Evans — arranger, conductor
Ernie Royal — trumpet
Bernie Glow — trumpet
Louis Mucci — trumpet
Taft Jordan — trumpet
Dick Hixon — trombone
Frank Rehak — trombone
Jimmy Buffington — French horn
John Barrows — French horn
Earl Chaplin — French horn
Jimmy McAllister — Tuba
Al Block — Flute
Eddie Caine — Flute
Romeo Penque — oboe
Harold Feldman — clarinet, oboe
Danny Bank — bass clarinet
Jack Knitzer — bassoon
Janet Putnam — harp
Paul Chambers — bass
Jimmy Cobb — drums
Elvin Jones — percussion
Jose Mangual — percussion

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Miles
• Davis
• Concierto
• de
• Aranjuez
• 1960

[hapzap13]

My first album i bought it in 1961 i was 16 years old.

[TheBigShel]

Some of the best music ever recorded! Incredible composition with a special treatment by a musical genius. Love this!

[Marieloupe10]

Reaper679 That was Miles Davies who wrote that. I merely quoted from his autobiography that I was reading at the time.

[Reaper679]

@Marieloupe10

you sound like a cool guy

[intercomsec]

Guys you may like the version by the UK jazz clarinetist Acker Bilk

[mmbmbmbmb]

Miles DAvis sure makes this great composition by Joaquin Rodrigo his own.

In my opinion it allows entirely different emotions and sensations, than the original does. I like both interpretations ~ but on an entirely different level! Being left with an entirely different mood!

[Marieloupe10]

in response to erploco2, this is a quote from 'Miles the Autobiorgraphy".

"Joaquin Rodrigo, the composer of Concierto de Aranjuez, said he didn't like the record and he - his composition - was the reason I did 'Sketches of Spain' in the first place. Since he was getting a royalty for the use of this song on the record, I told this person who had played it to him, "Let's see if he likes it after he starts getting those big royalty checks." I never heard anything about or from him after that."

[paulostroff99]

Remarkable. TY for posting.

[Molesworth2K]

@erploco2 Rumour has it that Grace Slick spent three day's straight tripping whilst listening to Sketches on a loop-tape before writing White Rabbit. Sounds pretty plausible to me ...

[TheShinyAmpharos]

tuba f*ck yeah

[erploco2]

0:17 - 0:34 the midsection to Captain Beefheart's song "Sugar N' Spikes. Apparently, him and Zappa used to listen to Sketches of Spain constantly when they were teenagers.

[MrHenigans]

Great musicians like Miles treat & honor great composers like the great Joaquín Rodrigo with depth, soul, beauty & magic. Rodrigo wrote this in 1939 and was written as a response to the miscarriage of their first child. . Rodrigo died in 1999 in Madrid at the age of 97 & Miles died in 1991.

Anyone know what Rodrigo thought of Miles interpretation?