Miles Davis
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Flamenco Sketches

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This tune consists of five scales, which are each played as long as each soloists wishes until the series is completed. Miles's path was as follows:

• 4 bars of C ionian (CMaj7)
• 4 bars of Ab mixolydian (Ab7sus)
• 4 bars of Bb ionian (BbMaj7)
• 8 bars of D phrygian (EbMaj7(#11)/D)
• 2 bars of G dorian (Gm7)

Like Coltrane, he spent more time on the darker phrygian mode. With just 2 bars of the last mode, he ends the tune and ends up with the shortest solo of the group with 22 bars.
Miles Davis was 32 to 33 years old at the time.

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Miles Davis

Trumpet

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Kind of Blue

Miles Davis

Released 1959

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Flamenco Sketches

Miles Davis

Recorded 1959

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Flamenco Sketches

by Miles Davis and Bill Evans

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C major

Concert Key

D major

Trumpet Key

24 bars

Form

4/4

Meter

1m 35s

Duration

1

Choruses

59 bpm

Tempo

Ballad

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