In subsequent years, Domínguez recorded New Flamenco Sound for Verve as well as a trio album, Acércate Más, on Nuba with the late conguero Miguel Diaz and bassist George Mraz.


One prominent jazz musician who was duly impressed aſter an encounter with Domínguez was Wynton Marsalis, who subsequently invited the pianist and to collaborate with the Lincoln Cen- ter Jazz Orchestra in 2003 on a program devoted to the fusion of jazz with flamenco, as well as a return concert in 2008 called “Tap Meets Flamenco,” which featured works by Domínguez and Marsalis. In a radio show documenting the latter event, Marsalis commented on working with Domínguez: “We learned a lot, in rehearsal, in discussions about how to interpret the different grooves, and rhythm harmonies because flamenco music is very different from jazz.”


But as Domínguez showcases on Flamenco Sketches, flamenco and jazz complement each other in quite an exciting way. In the DownBeat article, he said: “Superficially, flamenco and jazz are different, but at the core they’re similar. Both came from the culture of people who have a hard life. Jazz starts with black people, with the blues, the intention to express your happiness and your sadness—and flamenco is the same. But jazz is central to me. It pulls together many different cultures and allows them to think in the same direction.”


Te Flamenco Sketches album got its start as a result of a commissioned piece for the 41st Barcelona Jazz Festival. It was performed there to rousing approval on November 2009. “We were celebrating the 50th year of Kind of Blue,” says festival artistic director Joan Cararach, who serves as the album’s co-producer. “One booking was obvious: the only survivor [of the album], drummer Jimmy Cobb [and his] tribute band. But I wanted to do something more, so I asked the two most original musicians living in Barcelona: Chano Domínguez and Omar Sosa, to write new music around Kind of Blue. Te motto was total freedom, and the idea was not to play Kind of Blue, but to look at it from their own personal point of view and


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