2014-02-28
In 1960, Miles Davis and Gil Evans released the album Sketches of Spain. Listeners didn't know what made it jazz, but they knew they liked it, and the album is now considered a classic.
53 years later (2013) Nicholas Payton has released a cover version of Sketches of Spain. Payton is an acknowledged master musician and Grammy winner. He does a fine job here.
Perhaps this will prompt some Nicholas Payton fans to explore the works of Miles Davis, and if so, that will be a good thing. There isn't much to add.
---Gerald Etkind
BLUE MOON MARQUEE
BARE KNUCKLES & BRAWN
VARIOUS
Rumble In the Great Lakes (Best of the Detroit Jazz Fest 2007)
JOHN CLAYTON
PARLOR SERIES
CARMEN LUNDY
Come Home
Ivo Antognini Jazz Project
Feggari Mou
Gerald Beckett
Oblivion
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