“Flamenco Sketches” is a jazz composition written by American jazz trumpete… Read Full Bio ↴“Flamenco Sketches” is a jazz composition written by American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Bill Evans. It is the fifth track on Davis’ 1959 album Kind of Blue, the best-selling jazz record of all time, and an innovative experiment in modal jazz. The track features Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb and Bill Evans.
The piece has no written melody, but is rather defined by a set of chord changes that are improvised over using various modes of the major scale of each tonality. Each musician separately chose the number of bars for each of the modal passages in his solo. Davis gets credit for the song form, but Evans is credited with the opening 4-bar vamp over Cmaj7 and G9sus4, which is the opening theme to his ballad improvisation “Peace Piece”. Because of the presence of this vamp, “Flamenco Sketches” is usually played as a ballad. The modes used in “Flamenco Sketches” are as follows:
C Ionian (natural major scale)
A♭ Mixolydian (Major with a minor 7th)
B♭ Ionian
G Harmonic Minor over D Phrygian Dominant (alternates over bass notes D and E♭)
G Dorian
Most reissues since then have included the alternate take of "Flamenco Sketches" as the 6th track, which is the only complete alternate take from the two recording sessions that make up this recording.
The piece has no written melody, but is rather defined by a set of chord changes that are improvised over using various modes of the major scale of each tonality. Each musician separately chose the number of bars for each of the modal passages in his solo. Davis gets credit for the song form, but Evans is credited with the opening 4-bar vamp over Cmaj7 and G9sus4, which is the opening theme to his ballad improvisation “Peace Piece”. Because of the presence of this vamp, “Flamenco Sketches” is usually played as a ballad. The modes used in “Flamenco Sketches” are as follows:
C Ionian (natural major scale)
A♭ Mixolydian (Major with a minor 7th)
B♭ Ionian
G Harmonic Minor over D Phrygian Dominant (alternates over bass notes D and E♭)
G Dorian
Most reissues since then have included the alternate take of "Flamenco Sketches" as the 6th track, which is the only complete alternate take from the two recording sessions that make up this recording.
Flamenco Sketches
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@sprucecoastpress
My dearly departed 17-year-old tuxedo cat Marvin seemed to love jazz and especially Miles. Every time I would play Davis, Marvin would come lay close to the speakers. On his last night, I played him "Kind of Blue" and its last song in particular here is dedicated to his loving memory.
@phyllispetras3369
Bless you and Marvin forever
@Fran2667307
1st of all sorry for your loss
2nd (sorry i couldn't resist) Marvin was definitely -A Hep Cat!
3rd My wife's cat was named Trane.......
@siamavimbela
On a bad day, this makes me get out of bed spring clean, bathe and spoil myself with a self-love skincare routine, and cook myself a hearty meal. enjoy a glass of wine with a Viola Davis book, that grounds me and reminds me how blessed I am, indeed what a time to be alive
@zenshen1567
Make that day your every day
@GorbyP
What?!?! This song does that??
@siamavimbela
@@GorbyP yes it does, thanks for bringing me back here
@tomons8059
Can't believe it . . . but to each his own!
@lakeisharobinson2132
How blessed you truly are! Thanks for sharing this! 🤗
@danielwillette3895
Me & my wife dance to this song in our living room in the dark all the time with nothing but the fireplace to give us light, to me you can't get more romantic than that!