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Instrument/Chords, and Transcribed Solo in C Major. All rights reserved.PopMatters is wholly independent, women-owned and operated. Where Child Inside My Heart was a wistful, moody collection of ethereal jazz/new age, Flamenco Sketches is more jazz oriented, but still not 100% Jazz.

"15 Fact 3: Two memos from Townsend show the order on the second side of the final album as "Flamenco Sketches" first and "All Blues" second.

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While “Flamenco Sketches” retains a distinct modal jazz orientation, “Solea” is more steeped in Flamenco rhythms, flavors and dynamics. This effort picks up speed just short of five minutes into the piece, when the dynamics shift to forte (loud) and the chords shift to the complex chords of modern jazz. Evans certainly augments the sound in all the obvious ways, but he also embellishes the feeling.

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Miles Davis had already begun to explore Flamenco on “A Kind of Blue” with “Flamenco Sketches,” but with nowhere near the depth he achieves on the final piece of the original release of Sketches of Spain, “Solea.” While “Flamenco Sketches” retains a distinct modal jazz orientation, “Solea” is more steeped in Flamenco rhythms, flavors and dynamics. Miles Davis was not at the vanguard so much as he was the vanguard.

Both Gil Evans and Miles Davis insisted on preserving and even enhancing the presence of that melody, opting to bring more color into the composition through the possibilities of modern jazz and the willingness of both Evans and Davis to push those boundaries to the limit.