One of the issues with embarking on a project like this is how to choose what CD comes next. For the next batch (well over 60) I’m going to try to find a CD I own for each year of my life. A couple of years are looking problematic, but we’ll see how it goes.
1960 gives us Sketches of Spain, Miles Davis’ and Gil Evans’ take on firstly Rodrogo’s Concierto de Aranjuez then de Falla’s Will O’The Wisp and a couple of traditional Spanish tunes. It’s one of the very few albums that both my father and I owned, the tiny sliver of intersect on our musical Venn diagram. And it’s a wonderful album, Concierto de Aranjuez combining the orchestral, the traditional and Davis’ jazz trumpet in a gentle laid back listen, which occasionally rouses the listener from slumber. Will O’The Wisp is a shorter, less peaceful number, as is The Pan Piper, neither seeming to work as well as the opening long piece. Saeta is a rousing march before the album conclude with Solea, an Evans composition which harks back to the opening piece, incorporating elements of all the previous tracks and allowing Davis full rein to display his trumpet genius.
4* - a great album, which repays repeated listenings.
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