Ray Bayles wrote:

>Another enchanting work that bridges several views of music: Sketches
>of Spain by Miles Davis and Bill Evans...

This confuses several pieces, though understandably given the similarity
of names and works involved.  Flamenco Sketches is the piece you might be
thinking of.  It is on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue album, with the pianist
Bill Evans.  There's been a long debate about whether Davis or Evans wrote
the piece.  Davis claimed writing credit on the album, but Evans claimed
credit since.  Evans has, generally, been judged to have the better claim
as Flamenco Sketches builds out of an ostinato taken from Bernstein's Some
Other Time, which Evans also used around the same time on an album of
Evans' own (Piece Peace from Everybody Loves Bill Evans).  Or you could be
thinking of Sketches of Spain, which, on the other hand, is a full album
Davis did with the arranger and conductor *Gil* Evans, which featured
Evans' arrangement of Rodrigo's Concierto De Aranjuez.  Either are
important--Flemenco Sketches for being one of the first modal jazz pieces,
or Sketches of Spain for being one of the best jazz/orchestra arrangements.
(Although for the latter, arguably the more signficant Miles Davis album
would be Miles Ahead, the first Davis/Evans horn/orchestra combination,
which is probably the best selling album ever using an excerpt from Berg.
;)

Jason