Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches (Official Audio)

[@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.......

[@jamescasey8065]

...Mr. Marvin had taste...He spent this life with you...And he dug Miles...What a marvelous combination...He was your Gift...Pax...James Patrick Casey.

[@anthonylowney1395]

long live Marvin in your heart.

[@hippojuice23]

@@Fran2667307 Chasin' the Trane!

[@futuropasado]

Bill Evans composed the soul chords of this masterpiece, original song called "Peace Piece". More people should credit the genius of Bill.

[@roscoehammersmith]

By coincidence I just finished listening to Peace Piece before this came on, and initially thought it was replaying Bill.

[@nzazzara3111]

Right on

[@geancarlosmonteiro1001]

Evans foi um grande compositor.

[@chriswilkie4938]

Didn't Miles beat him out of his royalties on one of his compositions for this album? I heard he gave him 500 dollars and took it for his own? SMH

[@AmsterdamagedHQ]

I had listened to Peace Piece hundreds of times before I made the connection to Flamenco Sketches. Now I tell everyone who ever mentions either song :)

[@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!

[@SasukeJR]

I’ve listened to this song since I was a 16 year old. 11 years have passed and this song (or the alternate take I prefer) always sends me into a vivid daydream of dancing in a dark kitchen with a candlelit dinner. I haven’t found anyone to dance with yet. You’re living the dream! haha

[@SchuylerT.Colfax]

I planned to play this recording on our wedding night, but sadly, my fiance passed away before we could marry. May she rest in peace.

[@danielwillette3895]

@@SchuylerT.Colfax so sorry for your loss man

[@SchuylerT.Colfax]

@@danielwillette3895 Thank you, Mr Willette.

[@miguelvanbuuren]

@@SchuylerT.Colfax ¡Lo siento!. Qué cruel es la vida.

[@Noog6284]

Makes me cry tears of joy and pain and then I’m back to normal again. Anybody else here in love with this song?

[@hootsie1229]

Heard this while watching the movie "Basquait"..... didn't know it, so did a little digging .... it is BEAUTIFUL......

[@munyinganidarg7827]

Me❤

[@roystontaylor2302]

Very

[@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! 🤗

[@makismakiavelis5718]

It's one of these pieces that plays in your head once in a while at random moments in your day and you just have to play it as soon as you get back home. Pure magic.

[@mikeoglen6848]

That is a very interesting observation - I recognise that...

[@farrellcityking1]

Absolutely

[@Vigilante311]

Happened to me today, I finished work, had a beer and smoked a number and strolled through town to the bus stop observing people walking past with this in my headphones

[@vinzelrato]

this is my favourite Miles Davis song, along with "Freddie Freeloader" (also on this album)

[@flame-sky7148]

An amazing comment. I find myself doing that too on memorable compositions.

[@TonyfromBham]

This is high art. It sits nicely on the same shelf with Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberry’s, Matisse’s paintings, and the works of Bach & Beethoven. Like those other works, this one will be enjoyed, studied, debated, and written about for centuries.

[@antiverse0]

I like that!

[@XGRIMYONEX]

Nice. But there may be no trace of us in thousands of years. Who knows. Time goes by too fast.

[@hippojuice23]

This was the only thing that made sense after my mom died. Some of the deepest music from anyone, ever!

[@josephmorell2836]

Miles Davis killed it without a doubt but Coltrane was something else on this track

[@jameswhite7128]

If jazz had a bible...this would be the first scripture. 🙏

[@salvatormundi5184]

I know what you meant here, but not really. It would actually come way later than the first scripture.

[@Kngdmio]

I can't get enough of Bill Evans. Legend on the keys. Such beautiful harmonies.

[@titchner211c]

Pure beauty because of Miles's arrangement. He knew how to get the best out of his sidemen. That was part of his genius. You didn't mention Coltrane or Cannonball. Come on. Bill Evans was great but overrated.please give credit where credit is due, and it is due to Miles.

[@herman.grimaldo]

Hell yeah, Bill Evans was a genius!

[@gregoryswift9573]

I know this is the original supergroup.

[@gregoryswift9573]

Leeland Whitted you really think hes overrated?

[@FreeCorps1984]

@@gregoryswift9573 Leeland Whitted is overrated, by himself.

[@anthonyhosey710]

Just as my father did before me, I introduced my young 20 y.o. son to this tune through discussing the album Kind of Blue. Whether or not he would like this entire masterpiece never occured to me. He loved this just as I do. He mentioned to me that he listens to this particular tune while he studies. As a 20 y.o. in college in the late 70's, I prefered to listen to the album with a bottle of wine, a nice meal and the company of a beautiful friend. Which ever, when ever, how ever, whereever and whyever you listen/listened to this album, I know you very likely fell in love with it just as my son does after me and my father did before me. The tradition of generational musical enlightenment will continue!

[@mikeoglen6848]

That is a very nice story, Anthony...

[@moi3557]

It's in the blood!

[@jamesholiday321]

Wondrous strong . Heyyyy man that is such a lovely comment it speaks volumes . Perhaps it's the heroism of this album . It's so introspective and emotive . Hoping you and your son are well today .

[@robertdrawdyjr5498]

I couldn't have said it better myself.

[@thorntonwilliams3851]

Cannonball's solo possibly the most sublime, ever, in jazz.

[@vdjowk]

For sure, orgasm

[@okgood8529]

He really did play so beautifully.

[@carterhorsley3180]

This is the greatest jazz track of all time.

[@mjutteau]

Carter Horsley severely underrated. It Should be a standard

[@minichanz]

@@mjutteau it is in my home.

[@RodrigoRaez]

So what?

[@WestCoastJazzForever]

That's a bold statement.

[@hivicar]

@@mjutteau Than it could also be the most unique. Joe Henderson, Mike Manieri (live) great but the original a totally inspired creation..

[@maximus452]

I'm a Metal fan to the core, Heavy/Thrash/Black/Prog and a lot of other Rock and genres, but this masterpiece brings tears to my eyes everytime, specially the Coltrane solo, oh man, it pierce my heart.

[@miltonmartin1787]

This is the most celestial sounding song on the album. The entire album is beautiful and so enjoyable to listen to and reminisce about something good that was happening in your life. I saw Miles Davis, Art Blakey, and the Jazz Messengers at the Regal Theatre in Chicago in 1959. I loved his music thèn and 65 years later, I am still enjoying his music while listening to this CD in my car. Miĺes Davis and Lee Morgan was a treat for an 18-year-old who loved listening to jazz in Chicago. Now, I am an 83 year old man, living in San Antonio, still listening to my Kind of Blue CD whenever I drive my car. Four CDs OF Miles Davis, one CD of Earl Klugh, and one CD of Luther Vandross are in my CD player. I do not listen to the radio; I just listen to my CDs. 💿 😊

[@ElphasBengo]

Am still here in 2023 fall. This music gets to me like no other. Takes me back to my humble factory settings. Such a melancholic yet peaceful place. Am safe here.

[@spindatish]

This song gave me comfort in times where it was nowhere to be found.

[@thequietrevolution3404]

The Legend The Legacy The Enigma The Truth - *_Miles Davis - John Coltrane - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley - Bill Evans - Paul Chambers - Jimmy Cobb_* ...When Giants Walked the Earth...

[@JackT13]

When one considers that music is often seen as the universal art, and that jazz is widely recognised as the height of music, and that this album is very possibly the best the genre has ever produced, I don’t think it’s an overstatement to assert that this is quite literally one of the finest pieces of art ever created; irrespective of culture, period or medium of artistic expression.

[@jaxeejess831]

@JackT13 - you...are so spot on my friend...I agree!

[@michaeldejesus5685]

Absolutely one of the finest pieces of Art! I play this song almost every night for my sons at bedtime. ❤

[@jaxeejess831]

@@michaeldejesus5685 You are so on point ...raised my kids with a bit of jazz, classical & christian contemporary...my uncle was lead trumpeter of Duke Ellingtons band right before he passed...I cut my teeth on music like this, it's all my dad use to play. Wonderful thing you're doing for your children!

[@robynbrouckaert8304]

Y'all, your appreciation of this extraordinary music is inspirational. This is my first time to hear it. High creation indeed

[@nameyoufriend]

This has been my medication for 39 years.... When stressed, like now, I turn to this song

[@hendrixny9186]

Read Miles’ autobiography if you haven’t. One of the very few times he addressed the audience was in Philadelphia, where Coltrane grew up. It was Trane’s last gig with the band and Miles told the audience how much of joy it had been to experience Trane for all the years they had played together. This album is as great an artistic achievement as any thing borne from the human mind. And heart.

[@lgxotb9430]

i read this recently. great read. i believe miles really slowed john down musically

[@OdinLimaye]

God damn, Kind of Blue really is one of the greatest pieces of music ever.

[@Maikigai]

Listening to the rain, breathing mountain air and sipping a malt while listening to this. Life’s good.

[@abrahampalmer8761]

It definitely has that winter rainy/snow type vibe to it

[@eldelfi1795]

It sure does and its sweet harmony galore

[@karynconner7254]

Breathing mountain air and sipping bourbon here...heavenly!!

[@davidbrogan432]

🖼 📱 😌 🏵 🎺 🎶 🥃 🏆

[@loudharry3740]

Listening to Flamenco sketches while enjoying and tasting a supreme Makers Mark on the Rocks ...better imposible ..kisses to all

[@thomasbailey1552]

I have to say Paul Chambers is doing some of the best bass playing ever recorded. His rythmic and harmonic detail just give every track a holy new atmosphere in my opinion. Wow

[@ninoferreira1311]

Yes!!!

[@МихаилСергопольцев]

I came to Miles Davis late, but thanks to him I fell in love with jazz.

[@bossgirlswagg1762]

I was also late to his music..but I really started to listen because of my late father loved his music.

[@gauchoamigo1828]

Unfortunately I do not have a woman or any close friends to listen to this song to. But I still listen to it anyway because it is amazing. Thanks Miles.

[@andreasjensen6617]

Same non of my friends really love jazz

[@sustainfem]

@@andreasjensen6617 My husband does, so I introduced him (via CD not in person, ha!) to the Dave Brubeck Quartet. He already liked Miles and some others. My sister and brother-in-law had two Brubeck albums when I was a young girl. I would always put them on as soon as I arrived at their house. They really got me into jazz.

[@sustainfem]

It is phenomenal. Hope you meet someone who will enjoy it with you.

[@Coolbreez13]

You have the greatest gift in the world and that is you PEACE 🙏

[@eddietheguy12]

4:50 Perhaps the smoothed sax lick is the history of music.

[@alexandradecastro5142]

Never in a million years I could find words to describe this masterpiece ♥️💫

[@jimmyclark2999]

❤️

[@ghettoblacktheater]

Well said

[@brianbyers5400]

Alexandra De Castro, I agree.

[@abrahampalmer8761]

Same this whole album is so flawless and perfect

[@devikafollosco2456]

Truth!!! 💖💖💖

[@William_sJazzLoft]

Kind Of Blue is one of the most commercially successful albums of all time and when you listen to Flamenco Sketches you understand why.

[@gabrielxtc1]

The best selling jazz album in history.

[@joeroganofficial5433]

@@gabrielxtc1 *head hunters

[@superleekegshoondinovevo6998]

@@joeroganofficial5433 It's up there but I don't think it's the highest-selling

[@Painting45]

So you know Kind of Blue sells more LPs each year than all the other Jazz records combined. It and only it is the all time favorite Jazz record.

[@Primebaker]

I repeatedly listened to Flamenco Sketches while driving the 20+ trips I made to San Diego from SF during the last year of my mother's life while dealing with fatal pancreatic cancer. It carried me thru that sad ordeal and gave me comfort and closure.

[@abrahampalmer8761]

Miles Davis is one of the greatest music artist ever existed in music history his music speak for itself.

[@mandlancayiyana8621]

Well Miles Davis in his "first life" in the jazz art form.

[@abrahampalmer8761]

@@mandlancayiyana8621 facts Miles Davis is a league of his own he surpassed everyone that came before and definitely after him in jazz and that's a undeniable fact.

[@charliegedge5226]

@@abrahampalmer8761 I think you should credit the genius of bill evans more

[@dsonyay]

Yes, He was pretty good

[@MarcGanancias]

Now, in 2021, this remains the greatest piece I have ever laid ears on.

[@seanspring1360]

I recommend it to many. Cool atmospheric jazz at its best.

[@ludoservant]

Same.

[@rtd1409]

I love how when cannonball pipes up it always sounds like he just walked into the room in the middle of the session. Its a clever style and pure improvisational genius for the entire crew on these recordings!

[@jaylenharris2150]

His whole playing style gives you a feeling of Joy

[@Maltloaflegrande]

I've always loved his solo on this and no amount of erudite Jazz experts with definitive opinion complexes proclaiming how it doesn't fit in with the rest of the track will ever change my mind.

[@bobbyferrer7616]

My whole life, in one song.

[@sophiamus2632]

My favorite Miles Davis, I think there is so much beauty in this song. It is a bittersweet conversation of life.

[@Anonymous-hf8nx]

2:56 That melody is gorgeous

[@lgxotb9430]

dope as

[@MrChaseman99]

one of the 5 greatest pieces of recorded music in history!!

[@imagesandwords4327]

What are the other four? (genuine question)

[@halidagil8770]

Poetry without words.

[@williamsholly600]

My favorite song on the whole album

[@vinzelrato]

definitely the best Miles Davis album

[@phyllispetras3369]

Miles Smiles also!!!!!!!

[@askoholli9306]

Nah. Sketches of Spain.

[@michaelwosslert9524]

Probably the finest music ever recorded.

[@stevekorchak6478]

A true masterpiece.

[@lightmad]

One of the best jazz/songs ever

[@jamesmccarren3857]

Play this at my funeral.

[@WolffBachner]

For Jimmy Cobb, the drummer on this. Godspeed and good journey, Jimmy Cobb.

[@peanutbutterjellyfish2665]

Wolff Bachner 💚🥁

[@erikaharris3517]

The best Jazz record of all time. I just purchased the vinyl.

[@ElphasBengo]

Flamenco sketches never ages. A song for all occassions.

[@jb_franklin05]

2:00 John Coltrane solo 3:40 Cannonball Adderley solo 5:50 Bill Evans solo

[@ajanbrown1131]

Cannonball's solo is the closest thing we'll come to hearing God speak through a saxophone

[@Joao-tl7xr]

Best solo in this music

[@mckendrick4046]

It's the switch from Coltrane to Adderley that nails you up.

[@michaelbrewer8612]

One of the greatest songs ever written and recorded, thanks Miles, a masterpiece!

[@johnpickering4579]

If I had to listen to just one song for eternity, i think it would be this.

[@randallwithell6496]

The slow beauty that reminds us that goodness always exists, in its most mundane moments - the swing in the park, the neon above the diner, the dog that smiles & smiles & smiles. If there's a heaven, may I die & enter this world that was given & given & given. Thank you.

[@natancrisostomo7622]

This album, is the story of Coltrane, his existential crises, you can hear it in every of the solos. his struggle, pain and resignation. He's having a conversation with his two buddies, Miles and Cannonball. Miles is a pessimistic intellectual telling Coltrane, to just accept the world as it is. Cannon ball is telling him the same thing, but in a forget about everything and be happy. But Coltrane refuses to stop asking.

[@muskokachef]

Natan Crisostomo interesting take on the music and the interaction between the 3 soloists

[@theinfamouspokeinrichmondc3543]

Man that is a hell of view on looking at it! Wow. I appreciate your take on this. I need to see a therapist.

[@blackpanda32]

most accurate description

[@shakeelcullis4602]

it's great that the music can let your imagination run like this, but take a step back before writing your strange fiction on people you never knew. just listen and let that be.

[@jasonmenke3955]

Uh ,,,ok

[@phillipperez8200]

My pops loved miles and this tone was one of his favorite to play my pops played sexophone all his life my pops passed away it's been 4yrs he was 85yrs old playing music was his happy place he is Deeply missed by so many people 💔 😢

[@SmeeUncleJoe]

I think this was his greatest song ever. I never tire of it... just masters all of them.

[@robertgraham9217]

I forced my late father -- a tenor at the Met who listened to nothing after 1900 -- to listen to all of Kind of Blue. At the end of Flamenco Sketches, he stood up and pronounced that this was "baby making music." Truer words have never been said.

[@patriciakeyser8540]

I had the pleasure of seeing him in 88 at the Newport Jazz Festival. It was incredible and tickets were $18 folks. So wonderful ❤❤

[@farrellcityking1]

Song brings tears to my eyes every single time I hear it. It truly is a thing of beauty.

[@gregoryleon2888]

AS I SIT HERE LOKING OUT OVER THE LAKE, AND WATCH THE STORMS MOVE SOUTH. THIS BRINGS BOTH PEACE JOY AND TKES ME BACK TO MY CHILDHOOD

[@fayewilliams9894]

It is such an awesome Blessing to be alive and to hear and appreciate the music of Miles...

[@RonaldHenderson-fd1ow]

They were the Earthly representatives of that entity!!!

[@rashaancornell8831]

Like many of us, I gave jazz a chance, and now I'm a addict and don't want any rehabilitation! A bonifed Jazz Junkie, and I love it!

[@NYisconstipated]

Jazz was a time...wish I was around for it but I’m glad it’s been recorded

[@moi3557]

Jazz is eternal.

[@TommyGadd]

If this music doesn’t move you and get into your soul you have no pulse. This song is heaven on vinyl. Peace

[@lzdm2892]

5分50秒辺りから始まる【ビルエヴァンス】のピアノソロのなんと素晴らしいことか❗ これぞリリシズムの極みです♪

[@beebee_0136]

Miles was quoted as saying Bill Evans "... plays the piano, the way it should be played." And 6:50 - 7:03 captures just that! Drawing heavily from the work of Maurice Ravel. So heavenly!!!!

[@tuxguys]

The Ravel observation... Very good.

[@ramoncollado1967]

Growing up, I heard he was an icon, but I never had the curiosity, to investigate how genius he was. Going to a red, white, and blue store, I saw a CD, I decided to buy it, I said to myself, "I wasted my life", now I'm a huge fan. Sorry Miles! Better late, than never!

[@jerryallison6266]

This was the first vinyl LP I ever bought (many long years ago) and the more I listen to Miles, the more I understand the depth of his genius.

[@henrybrown1268]

At 2:03 you can become lost to everything around you without knowing that you are present. John Coltrane was a master of spirituality and takes you on such a spiritual journey that you don't want to never come back to the present. Simply a masterpiece!

[@haroldoakland3480]

I adore the pensive melancholy dashed with hopefulness that John expresses.

[@haneefabdusshakur5504]

the ultimate "bring it down. a thousand " for a man when he going through shit.

[@selfmademanification]

Genius is building without a blueprint,Genius in envisioning what no one else can see,Genius is walking by faith on a unfamiliar path,Genius is Miles Davis Kind of Blue The Album!

[@b.g.odonnell277]

Perhaps the greatest Jazz album ever ! This music seduces you into the depths of nostalgia and you feel its pain and its joy while touching your very soul!

[@big88ful]

This is some of Miles most beautiful music. Love this song and album!!!

[@bb57365]

Pure mastery. The sounds they make.

[@MrFrostien]

Having a cofee sitted in the couch in a cozy library on a cold winter's night after coming back home, that is what comes to my mind listen to this.

[@starchild_777]

this is music naked, pure and raw.

[@irenebeck6330]

sublime and beatiful

[@marcusivery5224]

"City Island was the last stop of my father's route. It was one of our favorite places: it was like going on vacation for a day. "

[@sottzen]

As everyone has said this is one of the most important Jazz albums of all time, mind blowing playing. Didn't they record all these tunes in one take. What a joy to listen to it again

[@exjazzer]

Yes, they did it all in one take. They never thought it would be a masterpiece.

[@milaortiz]

Farewell Mr. Cobb. You're a legend

[@peanutbutterjellyfish2665]

Mila Ortiz 💚🥁

[@johnstarling184]

I was a teen I loved jazz pick it up from my mother when I use to help my mother clean the house she would listen to, this music and that's how I fell in love with miles and Coltrane and jazz period👍back in the 60s and 70s that was real music!!!!!

[@sofiaartmanagement7504]

The greatest jazz album ever! I love you, Miles! And thank you!

[@DCussen]

Listening to this makes you forget about “jazz”, Miles Davis, and maybe your worries for a bit. Feel like I’m in the city late at night, after the bars have closed, watching, potholes fill with light rain on a street now quiet..

[@johnschaefer2238]

Born in 1958 I became a R&R fan in 1964 when my mom introduced me to the Beatles. Before that my favorite song she used to play for me was Frankie Laine’s Mule Train. I heard a Miles Davis tune on a local Jazz station in NY and thought wow I got to get one of his albums. I went into Tower Records and bought this. When I listened to it at home I was blown away. A few days later my girlfriend came over for dinner. I said let me put on some music while we have dinner and she became a Miles fan also. This is my favorite cut on the album sooooo good!

[@petercremin742]

Such brilliance

[@arthurholloway-bu4gu]

This album turned my life around!!!

[@OSIRIS1980WHS]

This does I think top off well the greatest album ever made available to the LP-buying audience.

[@RonBoyle-is1nr]

If there is a more beautiful jazz tune, I have not heard it in 55 years of listening.

[@megalomaniacko1]

"Cannonball" Adderley here... immense.

[@BohemianSisters]

The greatest Jazz record I've ever heard!

[@franciscorubio1751]

Cannonballs solo is my favorite in this piece even though all are amazing in their own way. His just resonates more with me

[@rob1389]

Me too. His solo lines are amazing! Throughout the whole album I like Cannonball's solos more than the others (although the others are brilliant too). I know he is famous, but I still think people sometimes don't make quite as much fuss about Cannonball's talent as they should! (I realise people's tastes differ).

[@Ramelov77]

Totaly egree. He enters just after Coltrane's solo and kills it. The best sax solo in history.

[@paultjader8699]

Stunning, the nuances and inflections Coltranes ethereal solo

[@zacharyschnepp4860]

This reminds me of my mom and dad and my aunt I miss them now I’m 57 and they’re all gone and I miss them a lot. They used to play this a lot and a lot of other jazz music and it brings back some memories of my parents and my aunt

[@danielmelo7146]

"Absolutely extraordinary".

[@dawnbanks1947]

I absolutely love the Miles Davis documentary, I can remember my mom introducing me, and my three brothers to Miles Davis when we were very young.

[@maddma]

This music feeds my soul.

[@jkfuentes6888]

I hold my husband's hand laying in the dark with the light from this .....beautiful soulful embracable masterpiece....and I think LOVE IN EVERYWAY....and I look at his hands.. .... ...and I think.... ohhh how I can go Miles and Miles and Miles away again and again 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰👌🤝

[@EtiquetteTroll]

The greatest jazz record EVER❤

[@vi3412]

A genius , a master and a true virtuoso

[@douglasschaefer8012]

If this isn't a "go to" song I don't know what is. Mesmerizing. Jazz and music and art at its finest.

[@MaxRescio]

Trane with his elegance ...never out..always and good