TAS**MILES DAVIS SKETCHES SPAIN**UK FONTANA STEREO MINT

	£		32
	$		42

MILES  DAVIS * SKETCHES OF  SPAIN * T.A.S.

ORIGINAL  UK  FONTANA  STEREO

UK  ORIGINAL FONTANA STLF 5100  STEREO  (USA  CS 8271  ****  TAS  LISTED  ****  MILES  DAVIS >> SKETCHES OF SPAIN  ****  ARRANGED AND CONDUCTED BY  GIL  EVANS  ***  TRACKS  >>  CONCIERTO  DE  ARANJUEZ  /////  WILL  O  THE  WISP  /////  THE  PAN  PIPER  //////  SAETA   ///  SOLEA  ***********  CLASSIC  MILES  PERFORMANCE  ****  FINAL  UPGRADE FOR  THIS  RECORD  **  THIS  IS  BELIEVED  TO  BE  THE  FIRST  UK  STEREO  PRESSING  OF  ANY  MILES  DAVIS  RECORD >>>  PRESSED  IN  1960  ****  SUPERB  SURROUND  STEREO  SOUND  **************************** 

RECORD  CONDITION  **** FULL  PLAY CHECK  >>>  THE  RECORD  PLAYS   MINT >>  NO  TICKS  /////  NO  CLICKS  /////  NO  BACK-GROUND NOISE  >>  PERFECT  AUDIOPHILE  QUALITY  SOUND  REPRODUCTION  ******  WITH  VISUAL  EYEBALL  INSPECTION  THE  RECORD  LOOKS  COSMETICALLY  MINT  ****  THE  JACKET  IS  CONDITION  GRADED  AS  NEAR  MINT  ******************************************  FINAL  UPGRADE  FOR  THIS  RECORD  ***************** 

HANDLING  +  P  &  P  ******  SIGNED  FOR  SHIPPING  IS  REQUIRED  ******  USA  &  REST  OF  THE  WORLD  ==  GBP 13  ///////////////////   SHIPPING  EUROPE  ====  GBP 10  ///////  UK  INLAND  SHIPPING  ===  GBP 4  *********  NO  CHEAPER  SHIPPING  OPTIONS  WILL  BE  ADOPTED  **************

ADD  NOTE  1 ***  THIS  RECORD  IS  LISTED  IN  THE  ABSOLUTE  SOUND  INFORMAL  (SUMMER  WHITES)  SECTION  UNDER  THE  CATALOGUE  NUMBER  CS 8271  *** 

ADD  NOTE  2 ***  Along with Kind of Blue, In a Silent Way, and Round About Midnight, Sketches of Spain is one of Miles Davis' most enduring and innovative achievements. Recorded between November 1959 and March 1960 -- after Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley had left the band -- Davis teamed with arranger Gil Evans for the third time. Davis brought Evans the album's signature piece, "Concierto de Aranjuez," after hearing a classical version of it at bassist Joe Mondragon's house. Evans was as taken with it as Davis was, and set about to create an entire album of material around it. The result is a masterpiece of modern art. On the "Concierto," Evans' arrangement provided an orchestra and jazz band -- Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb, and Elvin Jones -- the opportunity to record a classical work as it was. The piece, with its stunning colors and intricate yet transcendent adagio, played by Davis on a flügelhorn with a Harmon mute, is one of the most memorable works to come from popular culture in the 20th century. Davis' control over his instrument is singular, andEvans' conducting is flawless. Also notable are "Saeta," with one of the most amazing technical solos of Davis' career, and the album's closer, "Solea," which is conceptually a narrative piece, based on an Andalusian folk song, about a woman who encounters the procession taking Christ to Calvary. She sings the narrative of his passion and the procession -- or parade -- with full brass accompaniment moving along. Cobb and Jones, with flamenco-flavored percussion, are particularly wonderful here, as they allow the orchestra to indulge in the lushly passionate arrangement Evans provided to accompany Davis, who was clearly at his most challenged here, though he delivers with grace and verve. Sketches of Spain is the most luxuriant and stridently romantic recording Davis ever made. To listen to it in the 21st century is still a spine-tingling experience, as one encounters a multitude of timbres, tonalities, and harmonic structures seldom found in the music called jazz.