Sketches of Spain is a studio album by the jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis. It was released on 18 July 1960 through Columbia Records. The recording...
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title is a reference to the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick East and Miles Davis' 1960 LP Sketches of Spain, which inspired the album's jazz-oriented sound...
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Miles Davis (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
Evans, such as the Spanish music-influenced Sketches of Spain (1960), and band recordings, such as Milestones (1958) and Kind of Blue (1959). The latter...
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Miles Ahead (album) (category Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients)
Birth of the Cool sessions. Along with their subsequent collaborations Porgy and Bess (1959) and Sketches of Spain (1960), Miles Ahead is one of the most...
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Raoul and the Kings of Spain is the fifth studio album by English pop rock band Tears for Fears, released on 16 October 1995 by Epic Records. Like the...
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William Beckford (novelist) (redirect from Jacquetta Agneta Mariana Jenks, of Belgrove Priory in Wales)
memoir of a trip made in 1794. Beckford, William (1834). Italy, with sketches of Spain and Portugal. 1. Beckford, William (1834). Italy, with sketches of Spain...
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Sketches" were omitted to reduce cost. This release was on the market less than a year and was discontinued some time after July 1961, after Sketches...
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September 1970), that satirises the Spanish Inquisition. The sketches are notable for the catchphrase, "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!", which has been...
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Concierto de Aranjuez (category Pages with Spanish IPA)
reinterpreted the second movement of the work on his album Sketches of Spain (1960), in the company of arranger Gil Evans. Davis stated: "That melody is so...
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Miles Davis discography (redirect from Evolution of the Groove)
The follow-up album in 1960, Sketches of Spain, went gold. He formed his Second Great Quintet in 1964. With the release of Miles in the Sky, Davis permanently...
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to the classic Miles Davis album Sketches of Spain, with the cover art also being a parody of the Sketches of Spain artwork), the piece titles (which...
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popularized the instrument in jazz on the albums Miles Ahead and Sketches of Spain, (both arranged by Gil Evans) though he did not use it much on later...
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John Paul Jones (musician) (category Musicians from the London Borough of Bexley)
snatches of "Amazing Grace", Joaquín Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez", which had inspired Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain, and variations of classical...
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His album Sketches of Spain (1960) was inspired by a flamenco performance Taylor insisted they attend. Davis also put Taylor on the cover of multiple albums...
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The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live sketches, organized by the season and date in which the sketch first appeared. For an alphabetical...
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inspiration from Miles Davis' 1960 album Sketches of Spain, as well as the band's base recording location of Brunswick East in Melbourne, it is a jazz...
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Gregorio Martínez Sierra Recorded by Miles Davis on the 1960 album Sketches of Spain Transcendental Etude No. 5 (Liszt), also known as Wills o' the Wisp...
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Gil Evans (category Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductees)
(1958), and Sketches of Spain (1960). Another collaboration from this period, Quiet Nights (1962) was issued later, against the wishes of Davis, who broke...
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12th on the list of "25 Greatest Instrumental albums of all time". All tracks are written by Buckethead, except for “Sketches Of Spain”, which is a tribute...
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Mark Hollis (category Alumni of the University of Sussex)
of music from garage rock to modal jazz, particularly Miles Davis's collaborations with arranger Gil Evans on Porgy and Bess (1959) and Sketches of Spain (1960)...
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by Davis. Apart from "Song of Our Country" from the recording sessions for Sketches of Spain (1960), a 1961 recording of "'Round Midnight", and "So Near...
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at the Plaza (Columbia, 1973) – recorded in 1958 Kind of Blue (Columbia, 1959) Sketches of Spain (Columbia, 1960) – recorded in 1959–60 Someday My Prince...
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Phrygian mode (category Culture of Phrygia)
Dominant. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. "Solea" by Gil Evans from Sketches of Spain (1960). "Infant Eyes" by Wayne Shorter from Speak...
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season, incorporated scripts from both seasons of the Sketch Show along with sketches from the Spanish comedy show Splunge! It was wildly popular with...
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well-known Nits songs include "J.O.S. Days", "Adieu, Sweet Bahnhof" and "Sketches of Spain". Top 10 albums include Omsk (1983), In the Dutch Mountains (1987)...
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White Rabbit (song) (category Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients)
was heavily influenced by Miles Davis's 1960 album Sketches of Spain, particularly Davis's treatment of the Concierto de Aranjuez (1939). She later said:...
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He left some masterpieces, some puzzling abstracts, and a pile of fascinating sketches." Musicians Miles Davis - trumpet Quincy Jones - conductor Kenny...
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again collaborate on albums such as Miles Ahead, Porgy and Bess, and Sketches of Spain. Some observers saw the subsequent hard bop style as a response to...
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Bill Barber (musician) (category Manhattan School of Music alumni)
modern jazz. He recorded with Miles Davis on the albums Birth of the Cool, Sketches of Spain, and Miles Ahead. Barber was born John William Barber in Hornell...
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independently released his second project Sketches of Spain Street. Albums Gemini Mood Swings. (2011) Sketches of Spain Street (2015) Untitled/TBA (2018) Singles...
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