My Spanish Heart
| My Spanish Heart | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1976 | |||
| Recorded | October 1976 | |||
| Studio | Kendun Recorders Burbank, California | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 73:03 (original album) / 77:36 (2000 expanded and remastered edition) | |||
| Label | Polydor Verve (reissue) | |||
| Producer | Chick Corea | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | |
| The Village Voice | B+ |
| DownBeat | |
My Spanish Heart is a studio album by Chick Corea, recorded and released in 1976. Prominent guest musicians include Corea’s Return to Forever bandmate Stanley Clarke on basses, violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, drummers Steve Gadd and Narada Michael Walden and Corea’s wife Gayle Moran on vocals.
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. “Armando’s Rhumba” is now widely considered a jazz standard.