Product Description

While Miles Davis continues to stand tall in the jazz pantheon,

it s a challenge and potentially a hazard for artists living in his

long shadow to reinterpret and even re-envision the iconic

trumpeter and bandleader s music. Hardest of all are his

classic recordings, especially the biggest-selling jazz album

in history, 1959 s Kind of Blue. But in a remarkable creative

achievement, Barcelona-based pianist Chano Domnguez

has brilliantly fused flamenco with jazz to cook up Flamenco

Sketches, a stunning new interpretation of Davis s seminal

music on Blue Note Records. It was commissioned by the

Barcelona Jazz Festival in conjunction with the 50th

anniversary of Kind of Blue and was recorded live at Jazz

Standard in New York in 2009.

Domnguez s seven-song collection features all of the Kind

of Blue tunes augmented by two of Davis s most popular

songs, Nardis (put on the jazz map by Bill Evans and never

recorded by the composer on any of his own albums) and

Serpent s Tooth (a pre-Kind of Blue tune that was part of

the trumpeter s 50s songbook).