Miles Davis – Sketches of Spain (CD)

Recorded in 1959 and 1960 with arranger Gil Evans, Sketches of Spain stands apart from everything else in the Davis catalog, drawing on Spanish classical and folk traditions to create something that defied easy categorization then and still does now. The collaboration between Davis and Evans was one of the great artistic partnerships in 20th-century music, and this Mobile Fidelity pressing brings renewed clarity to every nuance of Davis's muted trumpet against Evans's lush, cinematic orchestrations.