My Spanish Heart

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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.

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".

Personnel

• Chick Corea - Piano, Organ, Synthesizer, Percussion, Vocals, Production, Arrangement, Composer
• Stanley Clarke - Double bass
• Steve Gadd - Drums
• Narada Michael Walden - Drums, Handclaps
• Don Alias - Percussion
• Jean-Luc Ponty - Violin
• Gayle Moran - Vocals
• String quartet
• Connie Kupka - Violin
• Barry Socher - Violin
• Carole Mukogawa - Viola
• David Speltz - Cello
• Brass section
• Stewart Blumberg - Trumpet
• John Rosenburg - Trumpet
• Stuart Rosenburg - Trumpet
• John Thomas - Trumpet
• Ron Moss - Trombone

Charts

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

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