[JPL] Chick Corea's Spain

[Larry Appelbaum]

>From the Wikipedia entry on Corea's composition "Spain":

"...Corea opens the Light as a Feather version of Spain with the adagio from Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. After the intro, the song switches to a fast, steady samba-like rhythm, in which the main theme and an improvisation part are repeated.
The chord progression used during the improvisation part is based on
harmonic progressions in Rodrigo's concerto. It runs as follows:
 Gmaj7 F#7 Em7 A7 Dmaj7 Gmaj7 C#7 F#7 Bm B7

In line with jazz philosophy, other interpretations of the song are
structured differently and some might only retain the main theme or
parts of it."
 
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> 
> For some reason I had in my head that at least parts of Chick Corea's 
> song Spain were adapted from a piece by a Spanish classical composer 
> whose name I don't recall.
> 
> So I was surprised when I heard an interview that JPL'er Russ Davis 
> did with Corea on XM Beyond Jazz (on a flight from Austin to Boston), 
> and when Russ asked about how he felt about writing such a classic, 
> Chick did not mention this.
> 
> Of course it's entirely possible that he did say something but that 
> it was edited out of the broadcast interview, etc.  But I'm curious: 
> does anyone else know if I am remembering the source of this piece 
> correctly?  I'd look it up on Google, but we're actually still 
> several hours from landing...
> 
> Best,
> -Ken


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