― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 13 March 2005 07:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Keith C (kcraw916), Sunday, 13 March 2005 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Sunday, 13 March 2005 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 13 March 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link
RaM is a straight-ahead (relatively speaking) jazz album, Sketches is orchestrated awesomeness. Miles Ahead is worse than both.
― deej., Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vic Funk, Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― deej., Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link
It's just over-orchestrated nonsense, the kinda thing that would've scored a Douglas Sirk or some preposterous Technicolor melodrama of the time. It seems like a lesser album, too, coming as it does on the heels of Kind of Blue and a couple of years before the second classic quintet. The only reason I still keep it is because I've got 30+ other albums of his. I really can't think of a redeeming quality it has.
― Vic Funk, Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind. (AaronHz), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― deej., Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Solea is such a great track. I love that endlessly suspended, unresolved sound.
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 June 2011 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Thursday, 30 June 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
OTM
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 30 June 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 June 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
Also the dude who said that was knocking the PRESTIGE sessions as well, so wth is his opinion worth?
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 June 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
not a lot
― tylerw, Thursday, 30 June 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
fwiw though I tend to skip over Concerto de Aranjuez and I like the last three tracks the best.
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 June 2011 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i like those the best too, though there are some extraordinary passages in concerto.
― tylerw, Thursday, 30 June 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe I'll grow into Sketches, and Gil Evans in general, when I grow old. Not yet, though.
― you've got great robot conflict (Eazy), Thursday, 30 June 2011 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
You shall wear the bottoms of your trousers rolled.
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 June 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― j., Friday, 17 March 2017 01:47 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Friday, 17 March 2017 02:08 (seven years ago) link