Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain (Limited Import, Gatefold, 180 Gram) (LP)

"Sketches of Spain" was Miles Davis and Gil Evans’ third conceptual album (they had worked together back in the late 1940s on the celebrated “Birth of the Cool” nonet sessions and would record their first conceptual LP "Miles Ahead" in 1957, followed by their adaptation of George Gershwin’s music for "Porgy and Bess" in 1958).The Spanish-tinged album received a five-star rating in Down Beat, with critic Bill Mathieu stating that, “This recording is one of the most important musical triumphs that this century has yet produced. It brings together under the same aegis two realms that in the past have often worked against one another –the world of the heart and the world of the mind. To Davis and Evans goes not the distinction of five or 10 or a zillion stars in a review rating, but the burden of continuing to show us the way.”“In Sketches of Spain”, added Nat Hentoff, “Davis and Evans have gone on to challenge themselves even further than on previous albums. A brooding, dramatic Spanish s