Product Description
I hope you will enjoy this note-for-note transcription of the wonderful Zambra by the great
Flamenco guitarist, Juan Serrano, from his 1962 Elektra recording Ole, La Mano! The Zambra is
a beautiful flamenco form that has the strongest Arabic influence. As it is typical for Flamenco
guitarists to improvise and change their pieces with subsequent performances, Juan Serranos
Zambra evolved over the span of his career; the Ole, La Mano! recording being the first of several
variations of the piece. A second version appeared on the 1967 RCA recording The Flashing,
Glittering World of Flamenco Guitar under the title Zambra Maroqui. Serranos Zambra was then
introduced on the 1987 Soundboard TV DVD and then later featured on the 1994 Mel Bay
instructional video Juan Serrano Flamenco Guitar (released on DVD in 2010). In 1997, Serrano
released his transcription of the then current version of Zambra in the Mel Bay publication King
of the Flamenco Guitar under the title "Fantasy (Zambra)." It is my fondness of the 1962 Ole, La
Mano! recording that inspired me to transcribe this particular rendition of Serranos Zambra, a
transcription which had not before been released to the public.
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