Spain

Chick Corea composed "Spain" in 1971 and recorded it on Light as a Feather in October 1972 at IBC Studios in London. It opens with the adagio from Joaquin Rodrigo's 1939 guitar concerto Concierto de Aranjuez, then moves to a fast, samba-like rhythm with the main theme and improvisation, whose chord progression is based on progressions from Rodrigo's concerto. Wikipedia says Paco de Lucia inspired it, which we could not corroborate in an interview. A blog essay suggests Miles Davis, with Sketches of Spain, may have been the first jazz musician to interpret the adagio. Corea told NPR in 2011, as a search summary has it though we could not open the page, that when people ask for "Spain" in concert he plays the opening of the Concierto and people know what's coming up.

He adapted it for symphony orchestra in 1999 as his first piano concerto with the London Philharmonic and won a Grammy for best instrumental arrangement for "Spain for Sextet and Orchestra" at the 2001 ceremony. Wikipedia says the original recording was nominated twice at the Grammys, but the Recording Academy lists one nomination, for best jazz performance by a group in 1974. Wikipedia's long cover list includes Bill Watrous (1974), Blood, Sweat and Tears (1976), Art Farmer, Larry Coryell and Steve Khan (1977), Bela Fleck (1979), Al Jarreau with lyrics as "Spain (I Can Recall)" (1980), Tito Puente (1987), James Galway (1999), Michel Camilo and Tomatito (2000), Jake Shimabukuro (2005), the Manhattan Transfer (2009) and Stevie Wonder, who performed it in London in 2008.

Setlist.fm shows 25 performances on the Chick Corea statistics page. We could not tell whether our upload is the 1972 original, a 2008 or 2011 reunion version or another, and found no chart entry, samples or first and last performance dates.