Jazz Articles about Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan School of Music Jazz Orchestra: Sketches of Spain Live

by Jack Bowers
June 28, 2005

The celebrated Miles Davis/Gil Evans partnership, which produced three classic albums more than forty years ago, is undergoing a mini-renaissance that started with the recent interpretation of Porgy & Bess by trumpeter Clark Terry and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra and gave rise as well to this meticulous reprise of Sketches of Spain featuring David Liebman with the Manhattan School of Music Jazz Orchestra.

Unlike Porgy, on which Terry's approach would quite naturally be compared to Davis's, Liebman plays soprano and ...