Flamenco Sketches

Miles Davis · 1959

Context

Track from the album Kind of Blue, recorded on April 22, 1959, at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York by Miles Davis's sextet, with Bill Evans on piano. Credited to Miles Davis alone on the sleeve, it is attributed in whole or in part to Evans by many commentators.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Modal. Among the origins and influences of Modal: Cool (Birth of the Cool), Hard bop, Bossa nova, jazz samba.

By the same artist

• So What (1959)
• Blue in Green (1959)
• Freddie Freeloader (1959)
• All Blues (1959)
• Générique (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud) (1958)
• Stella by Starlight (1958)

Sources

• EN: Kind of Blue

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