[JPL] Chick Corea's Spain

[Doug Crane]

Here's a little piece of trivia about the Miles Davis/Gil Evans 
adaptation from Gary Marmorstein's book "The Label: The Story of 
Columbia Records":

"Hearing the Columbia record after it went on sale, Rodrigo, through 
his Paris publisher, threatened legal action because he was offended 
by the jazz treatment of his composition.  Teo Macero wrote to the 
publisher suggesting Rodrigo hold off on legal action until his first 
royalty check arrived.  Columbia never heard from Rodrigo or his 
representatives again."

I'd be curious what Rodrigo might have thought of Jim Hall's 
"Concierto" recording for CTI from 1975.  He would have had ample 
time to hear it as he didn't pass away until 1999.  It's certainly 
one of CTI's best records and has always elicited phone calls 
whenever I've played it even as far back as the fall of 1976 at 
WBGU.  I loved Doug Ramsey's liner notes too.  Sadly 
Sony/Columbia/Legacy did not include them in the CD reissue.

Doug Crane
KUVO Denver 89.3 FM
Wednesdays 7-9 PM
dcrane at comcast.net


> >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.