"Flamenco Sketches" is a jazz composition co-written by American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991) and American jazz pianist Bill Evans (1929-1980). Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26 1926 &ndash September 28 1991 was an American Jazz Trumpeter, Bandleader, and Composer. William John Evans (better known as Bill Evans) ( August 16, 1929 &ndash September 15, 1980) was one of the most famous and influential It is the fifth track on Davis' 1959 album Kind of Blue, the best-selling jazz record of all time, and an innovative experiment in modal jazz. The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Kind of Blue is an album by American Jazz musician Miles Davis, released August 17 1959 on Columbia Records, in both Modal jazz is Jazz using Musical modes rather than chord progressions as its harmonic framework The song has no written melody, but is rather defined by a set of chord changes that are improvised over using various modes of the major scale of each tonality. Tonality is a system of Music in which specific hierarchical pitch relationships are based on a key "center" or tonic. Each musician separately chose the number of bars for each of the modal passages in his solo. Davis gets credit for the song form, but Evans is credited with the opening 4-bar vamp over Cmaj7 and G9sus4, which is the opening theme to his ballad improvisation "Peace Piece. " Because of the presence of this vamp, "Flamenco Sketches" is usually played as a ballad. A ballad is a Poem usually set to Music; thus it often is a story told in a Song. The modes used in "Flamenco Sketches" are as follows:
- C ionian (C major scale)
- A-flat myxolydian (D-flat major scale over a pedal A-flat)
- B-flat ionian (B-flat major scale)
- D phrygian with an optional F-sharp (alternates over bass notes D and E-flat)
- G dorian (F major scale)
An alternate take of "Flamenco Sketches" is included on most recent re-issues of Kind of Blue as the sixth and last track. See also C minor, C-sharp minor C major (often just C or key of C) is a musical Major scale based on C Also see D-flat minor, or D major. D-flat major is a Major scale based on D-flat consisting of the Also see B-flat minor, or B major. B major or B-flat major is a Major scale based on B-flat F major (or the key of F) is a Musical Major scale based on F consisting of the pitches F, G, A, B{{music|flat}}
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