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500 Greatest Albums

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Sketches of Spain - Miles Davis


Sketches of Spain - Miles Davis
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This collaboration between Davis and arranger Gil Evans took fifteen orchestral sessions to record and six months to assemble. It wasn't an attempt to play Spanish music but to suggest it; its muted beauty contains enormous passion. But is it jazz? Davis responded, "It's music, and I like it."

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