Flamenco Sketches Chords May 2026

Here’s a concise guide to the chords for (from Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue , 1959).

This piece is a composition (credited to Miles Davis/Bill Evans). Unlike typical jazz standards, it has no fixed chord progression. Instead, it’s a sequence of five modes (scales) played in any order, for any length of time, with the rhythm section comping using specific chord voicings. The Five Modes & Their Corresponding Chords The pianist (Bill Evans, later Wynton Kelly) plays chords derived from these modes. Here’s the standard mapping: flamenco sketches chords