My Spanish Heart


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 received a five star review from Down Beat magazine.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Chick Corea

Side one

  1. "Love Castle" – 4:45
  2. "The Gardens" – 3:12
  3. "Day Danse" – 4:27
  4. "My Spanish Heart" – 1:37
  5. "Night Streets" – 6:08

    Side two

  6. "The Hilltop" – 6:16
  7. "The Sky" – 4:57
  8. "Wind Danse" – 5:00

    Side three

  9. "Armando's Rhumba" – 5:19
  1. "Prelude to El Bozo" – 1:34
  2. "El Bozo, Part 1 – 2:52
  3. "El Bozo, Part 2" – 2:03
  4. "El Bozo, Part 3" – 5:03

    Side four

  1. "Spanish Fantasy, Part 1" – 6:06
  2. "Spanish Fantasy, Part 2" – 5:14
  3. "Spanish Fantasy, Part 3" – 3:06
  4. "Spanish Fantasy, Part 4" – 5:16

    Bonus track

  5. "The Clouds" – 4:33
Note: "The Sky" was omitted in CD editions released during the 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 along with the previously unreleased track "The Clouds". Due to consolidation in the record industry over the later part of the 20th century, recent issues of the album are now on Verve Records, a label that specializes in jazz.

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