Round About Midnight or Sketches of Spain?

Solea is such a great track. I love that endlessly suspended, unresolved sound.

It's just over-orchestrated nonsense, the kinda thing that would've scored a Douglas Sirk or some preposterous Technicolor melodrama of the time.
think i like sketches for precisely this reason (minus the nonsense bit). gil evans' orchestrations/arrangements are kinda transporting in the same way those sirk melodramas can be. if you're open to that kind of thing.

OTM

yeah I don't really see why that's a bad thing, and anyway I as someone else said Gil Evans' arranging skills take this a few notches above a typical movie score of that sort.

Also the dude who said that was knocking the PRESTIGE sessions as well, so wth is his opinion worth?

not a lot

fwiw though I tend to skip over Concerto de Aranjuez and I like the last three tracks the best.

yeah i like those the best too, though there are some extraordinary passages in concerto.

Maybe I'll grow into Sketches, and Gil Evans in general, when I grow old. Not yet, though.

You shall wear the bottoms of your trousers rolled.

http://www.openculture.com/2017/03/listen-to-grace-slicks-hair-raising-vocals-in-the-isolated-track-for-white-rabbit-1967.html

Drenched in echo, Slick sings with martial precision, completely in command of her vibrato and dipping and rising all through the Phrygian scale (also known as the Spanish or Gypsy scale.) And no wonder, the song was written in 1965 after an LSD trip at her Marin county home where Slick had listened to Miles Davis’ Sketches of Spain over and over again for 24 hours.

Grateful Dead Spanish Jam also seems to be a direct lift. Think it was the Valentine's Day 68 set that had me really notice that.