My Spanish Heart

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My Spanish Heart

Studio album by Chick Corea
Released	1976
Recorded	October, 1976 at Kendun Recorders Burbank, California
Genre	Jazz
Length	77:03
Label	Polydor
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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 got five star review on Down Beat magazine.

[edit] Track listing

"'Love Castle'" (Corea) – 4:45
"'The Gardens'" (Corea) – 3:12
"'Day Danse'" (Corea) – 4:27
"'My Spanish Heart'" (Corea) – 1:37
"'Night Streets'" (Corea) – 6:08
"'The Hilltop'" (Corea) – 6:16
"'The Sky'" (Corea) – 4:57
"'Wild Danse'" (Corea) – 5:00
"'Armando's Rhumba'" (Corea) – 5:19
"'Prelude To El Bozo'" (Corea) – 1:34
"'El Bozo, Part 1'" (Corea) – 2:52
"'El Bozo, Part 2'" (Corea) – 2:03
"'El Bozo, Part 3'" (Corea) – 5:03
"'Spanish Fantasy, Part 1'" (Corea) – 6:06
"'Spanish Fantasy, Part 2'" (Corea) – 5:14
"'Spanish Fantasy, Part 3'" (Corea) – 3:06
"'Spanish Fantasy, Part 4'" (Corea) – 5:16
"'The Clouds'" (Corea) – 4:33

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