Spain (instrumental)
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"Spain" is an
"Spain" was composed in 1971 and appeared in its original (and best-known) rendition on the album
The Light as a Feather version of "Spain" received two
Composition
Corea opens the Light as a Feather version of "Spain" with the
Corea took inspiration from Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia for this piece.[2]
After the intro, the song switches to a fast, steady
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 |
Appearances
By Chick Corea
- Light as a Feather (1972) – Chick Corea and Return to Forever
- Akoustic Band (1989) – Chick Corea Akoustic Band
- Play (1990) – Chick Corea and Bobby McFerrin
- Return to the Seventh Galaxy: The Anthology (CD 1996) – Chick Corea, Bill Connors, Stanley Clarke, and Lenny White
- Alexia In a Jazz Mood (1996) – Chick Corea and Alexia Vassiliou
- Solo Piano: Originals (2000) – Chick Corea
- Corea.Concerto (2001) – Chick Corea with Origin and the London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Rendezvous in New York (CD 2003, DVD 2005) – Chick Corea Akoustic Band
- Elektric Band: Live at Montreux 2004 (2004) – Chick Corea Elektric Band
- Akoustic Band 1991 (DVD 2005) – Chick Corea Akoustic Band
- Duet (2009) – Chick Corea and Hiromi Uehara
- Trilogy (2013) – Chick Corea with Christian McBride and Brian Blade
Covers
- Manhattan Wildlife Refuge (1974) – Bill Watrous
- Blood Sweat & Tears
- Something You Got (1977) – Art Farmer
- Crossing the Tracks (1979) – Béla Fleck
- This Time (1980) – Al Jarreau
- Le Beirut (1984) – Fairuz
- Live With Vic Juris (1985) – Bireli Lagrene
- Jaco Pastorius & Bireli Lagrene & Alex Bally (1985) – Bireli Lagrene and Jaco Pastorius
- New Weave (1986) – Rare Silk
- Somewhere Out There (1986) – Airmen of Note
- Naurava Kulkuri (1986) – Vesa-Matti Loiri
- Sensacion (1987) – Tito Puente
- Daybreak (1987) – Béla Fleck
- Thousand Wave (1988) – Takahiro Matsumoto
- GRP All-Star Big Band (1992) – GRP All-Star Big Band
- Rosenberg Trio: Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival (1993) – Rosenberg Trio
- Ng La banda (Cuba) Montreaux Jazz Festival 1993
- Zlatko (1995) – Zlatko Manojlović
- DGQ-20 (1996) – David Grisman Quintet
- Two Guitars One Passion (1996) – Lara & Reyes
- Tango del Fuego (1999) – James Galway
- Czechmate (1999) – Druha Trava
- Spain (2000) – Michel Camilo & Tomatito
- La Nuit Des Gitans (2001) – Raphael Fays
- Tribute album (2001) – Emilie-Claire Barlow
- Crosscurrent (2005) – Jake Shimabukuro
- Gently Weeps (2006) – Jake Shimabukuro
- Steps (2009) – Cluster
- Live at Last (2008) – Stevie Wonder
- The Chick Corea Songbook (2009) – The Manhattan Transfer
- Acoustic Live (2009) – Pegasus (Issei Noro and Tetsuo Sakurai)
- Jazz and the Philharmonic – Chick Corea, Eric Owens, Terence Blanchard, and the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra
- Kind of Spain (2017) – Wolfgang Haffner
- Spain (2017) – Groove for Thought
- Spain (2019) – The String Queens
- Spain (2020) – Dewa 19
References
- ^ "Chick Corea". Blue Note. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
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