Spain (instrumental)

Corea opens the Light as a Feather version of "Spain" with the adagio from Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. Corea took inspiration from Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia for this piece. After the intro, the song switches to a fast, steady samba-like rhythm, in which the main theme and an improvisation part are repeated. {{Image frame \version "2.22.0" \header { tagline = "" } global = { \time 4/4 \key d \major \set Score.tempoHideNote = ##t % The Real Book says "Slowly", so it is reproduced here. % The MIDI tempo, however, is set to the speed of Chick % Corea's recordings; that is, quarter note at 230 BPM. \tempo "Slowly" 4=230 \set chordChanges = ##t } chordNames = \transpose c c, \chordmode { \global s1 | s1 | e1:m11~ | e2:m11 fis2:7sus4~ | fis1:7sus4~ | fis2.:7sus4 fis4:7| g1~ | g1 | fis1:7~ | fis1:7 | e1:m7 | a1:7 | d1:maj7~ | d1:maj7 | cis1:13.9- | fis1:7.9+ | b1:m11 | b1:sus2 } melody = \relative c'' { \bar ".|:" d4 fis8 d e d b d | r8 cis a cis r b g4 | a4. a8 r4 a4~ | a2 fis4. fis8 | r4 fis2.~ | fis2 r4 fis | g4. a8~ a4 b | cis4. d8~ d4 e | d4. cis8~ cis2~ | cis4 r r fis, | g4. a8~ a4 b | cis4. d8~ d4 e | d e8 fis~ fis2 | r2 r8 e r d | cis4. d8~ d4 e | d2 cis | cis4. b8~ b2~ | b2 r | \bar "||" } \score { > \layout { } } \score { \unfoldRepeats > \midi { } } }} 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 • Live and Improvised (1976) – Blood Sweat & Tears • Something You Got (1977) – Art Farmer • Two for the Road (1977) – Larry Coryell & Steve Khan • 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 • Spain (2020) – Jesus Molina ==References==