Various Artists - Miles Español - New Sketches Of Spain (2011) [2CD]

Various Artists - Miles Español - New Sketches Of Spain (2011) [2CD]

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Producer Bob Belden has turned reinventing the music of Miles Davis into a cottage industry, taking Davis to India for 2008’s Miles from India, and more recently Belden has given us Asiento, which re-imagined Bitches Brew as a slice of electronica. Now he gives us Miles Español, which finds Belden pairing veterans of Davis' various bands with musicians from Spain, Morocco, and Latin America on classic tracks from Davis' Sketches of Spain and Kind of Blue albums. Hearing Davis compositions with oud, bassoon, accordion, and bongos is certainly exotic and interesting, but one longs for the elegant, stately grace of the original albums.



In the days of the so-called Young Lions jazz wave—which lasted roughly, from 1981 to 1992—instrumentalists and singers were all the rage. At the tail end of that period, South Carolina-born saxophonist Bob Belden was making waves for his comprehensive and compelling arranging chops. Over the last two decades, Belden has brilliantly re-imagined the music of Sting, Puccini, Stevie Wonder, and, most notably Miles Davis. Devotees of the Prince of Darkness also know that Belden is one of the world's most astute "Milesologists," as evidenced by the Grammy-winning Miles Davis Sony box set compilations he produced.



Belden's genius for going beyond musical and cultural borders is on full display on this invigorative and inventive, two-CD exploration of Davis' flamenco- and Spanish-tinged pieces, largely selected from his legendary collaboration with arranger Gil Evans, Sketches of Spain (Columbia, 1960), and Kind of Blue (Columbia, 1959)—two towering recordings that formed a fertile crescent where the Old and New worlds met on equal terms. Comprising sixteen tracks, Belden has recruited a diverse array of over forty musicians, from ex-Davis sidemen including drummer Jack DeJohnette, bassist Ron Carter and über-pianist Chick Corea, to name a few, to Spanish masters like guitarist Niño Joseles and Chano Dominguez, arguably the most proficient jazz piano interpreter of flamenco genre, along with Belden's longtime band mate, trumpeter Tim Hagans. On this profound project Belden used Davis' Afro-Iberian musical tapestry to weave a rooted, yet revelatory new hybrid that sizzles under the heat of the Andalusia sun, and on the Manhattan bandstand.



Belden's re-rendering of Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez" and the "Saeta/Pan Piper" is a more Latin American/Maghred-oriented affair, courtesy of Edmar Castaneda's Colombian harp, Rabih Abou-Khalil's mournful Lebanese oud and Cristano Pato's piercing, Hispano-Celtic bagpipe. The Afro-Cubanized "Flamenco Sketches" burns with New York trumpeter Jerry Gonzalez's dark, lovely and Davis-tinged flugelhorn, peppered by Dominguez's Segovia-meets-Bud Powell pianism. Havana-born pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba's rhapsodic lines illuminate his own "Fantasia por Miles y Gil," pulsed by the formidable footprints of Carter's sorcerer-like bass lines and accented by Peruvian drummer/ex-Weather Report sideman Alex Acuna. Corea gets to wear his Spanish heart on his sleeve on the self-penned "Trampolin," with Carter and Mexican drum phenom Antonio Sanchez, contrasted by DeJohnette's Caribbean-cadenced, "Spantango," with Puerto Rican pianist Edsel Gomez and Venezuelan percussionist Luisito Quintero.



With this daring and diverse recording, Belden shows how Spanish and Spanish-speaking artists have easily absorbed the Davis/Evans Brujera Brew, and how jazz instrumentalists have adapted to the ancient, African/Moorish and Gypsy/Jewish Flamenco strains in swinging fashion, without the need of a translator.



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Tracklist:

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CD1

01. Concierto De Aranjuez - Rabih Abou Khalil, Edmar Castañeda, Alex Acuña

02. Trampolin - Chick Corea, Ron Carter, Antonio Sanchez, Jorge Pardo

03. Just Three Miles - Rabih Abou Khalil, Chano Domínguez, Alex Acuña

04. Duende - Niño Joseles, Jorge Pardo

05. Fantasia Por Miles Y Gil - Gonzalo Rubalcaba

06. Broto Y Cayo - Alex Acuña, Adam Rudolph, Niño Joseles

07. Paisaje Urbano - Edsel Gomez, Alex Acuña, John Benitez, Sammy Figueroa

08. Saeta/Pan Piper - Cristina Pato, Edmar Castañeda



CD2

01. Spantango - Jack DeJohnette, Chano Domínguez, Eddie Gomez, Jorge Pardo

02. Flamenco Sketches - Sonny Fortune, Jerry Gonzalez, Chano Domínguez, Sammy Figueroa, Alex Acuña, John Benitez

03. Tirititran Catalan - Chick Corea, Carles Benavent, Jack DeJohnette, Niño Joseles

04. El Swing - John Scofield, Chick Corea, Jack DeJohnette, Eddie Gomez

05. Momento - Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Ron Carter, Alex Acuña

06. Teo/Neo - Edsel Gomez, Alex Acuña, John Benitez, Sammy Figueroa

07. Beautiful Love - Niño Joseles, Chano Domínguez

08. Solea - Jaco Abel, Victor Prieto, Carles Benavent



*2011 eOne Music | EOM-CD-2104





Personnel:

Bob Belden: co-producer, arranger, marimbas, timpani

Ron Carter: bass

Jack DeJohnette: drums

Sonny Fortune: flute

Eddie Gomez: bass

Gonzalo Rubalcaba: piano

John Scofield: guitar

Rabih Abou-Khalil: oud

John Clark: French horn

Tim Hagans: trumpet

Jerry Gonzalez: percussion, conga, flugelhorn

Adam Rudolph: tabla, caxixi, cajon, sintir, qarqaba

Jorge Pardo: flute

Alex Acuña: percussion, bongos, drums, maracas, bells, cajon, quinto

Carlos Benavent: bass

John Benítez: bass

Chick Corea: piano

Sammy Figuerova: percussion, conga, ganza

Scott Kinsey: synthesizer

Lou Marini: flute, bass flute

Michael Rabinowitz: bassoon

John Riley: timpani

Antonio Sanchéz: drums

Vince Wilburn Jr.: drums

Mike Williams: trumpet

Chano Domínguez: piano

Luisito Quintero: conga

Charles Pillow: English horn, oboe

Edsel Gomez: piano

Jaco Abel: guitar

Dominick Farinacci: trumpet

Victor Prieto: accordion

Cristina Pato: bagpipes

Edmar Castaneda: harp

Brahim Fribgame: dumbek, cajon

Niño Joseles: guitar