My Spanish Heart

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My Spanish Heart
My Spanish Heart cover
Studio album by Chick Corea
Released 1976
Recorded October, 1976 at Kendun Recorders Burbank, California
Genre Jazz
Length 77:03
Label Polydor
Professional reviews
Chick Corea chronology
The Leprechaun
(1976)		 My Spanish Heart
(1976)		 The Mad Hatter
(1978)

My Spanish Heart is an album recorded by Chick Corea and released in 1976.

The album combines jazz fusion pieces and more traditional Latin music pieces. The album includes use of full brass and string sections on some tracks. "El Bozo" suite relies heavily on the use of synthesizers while "Spanish Fantasy" suite is mostly acoustic. The first four tracks form a suite as well.

My Spanish Heart is among the most successfully received Corea's albums among music critics. It received a five star review from Down Beat magazine.

[edit] Track listing

  1. Love Castle (Corea) – 4:45
  2. The Gardens (Corea) – 3:12
  3. Day Danse (Corea) – 4:27
  4. My Spanish Heart (Corea) – 1:37
  5. Night Streets (Corea) – 6:08
  6. The Hilltop (Corea) – 6:16
  7. The Sky (Corea) – 4:57
  8. Wind Danse (Corea) – 5:00
  9. Armando's Rhumba (Corea) – 5:19
  10. Prelude to El Bozo (Corea) – 1:34
  11. El Bozo, Part 1 (Corea) – 2:52
  12. El Bozo, Part 2 (Corea) – 2:03
  13. El Bozo, Part 3 (Corea) – 5:03
  14. Spanish Fantasy, Part 1 (Corea) – 6:06
  15. Spanish Fantasy, Part 2 (Corea) – 5:14
  16. Spanish Fantasy, Part 3 (Corea) – 3:06
  17. Spanish Fantasy, Part 4 (Corea) – 5:16
  18. The Clouds [bonus track] (Corea) – 4:33

Note: "The Sky" was omitted in CD editions released during 1980s and 1990s due to efforts to make the whole double-LP to fit to one CD. This track is included in recent CD editions (the absolute length of audio CDs has increased over the years due to more efficient designing systems) along with the previously unreleased track "The Clouds".

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Charts

Year Chart Position
1976 Billboard Top Jazz Albums 2
1976 Billboard Top Pop Albums 55