The last time that Sketches Of Spain was reissued (see Jazzwise 151), it was on the Poll Winners label and earned five stars. Now on Essential Jazz Classics (from the same stable), it takes a back seat to Quiet Nights, dependent on whether you audition this programme straight through or not. That fairly lightweight and incomplete 1962 album which was disowned by Davis and Evans, with its six shortish arrangements of pop songs and adapted material (‘Song 1’ and ‘Song 2’), is followed by such extraneous stuff as the three Bob Dorough tunes Miles recorded in 1962, presumably on the flimsy justification that Gil Evans may have arranged ‘Devil May Care’ (but describing these as ‘from the same sessions’ as Quiet Nights is a step too far). Also extraneous is Quiet Nights' ‘Summer Night’ with Victor Feldman, from the Seven Steps To Heaven sessions, with its date carefully omitted from the details because it's not actually public-domain until next year! Finally, we get the glorious Sketches and, while there are good moments during Quiet Nights especially from Evans, this is where the reissue finally takes off.