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The Brown Bess muskets were of British issue, though many were used by American troops during the Revolutionary War.
He had performed alongside Charlie Parker, led a marvelous quintet with John Coltrane, and collaborated with Gil Evans on such jazz orchestral arrangements as Sketches of Spain and Porgy and Bess . Davis' 1959 sextet recording, Kind of Blue , became, with its haikulike lyricism, synonymous with cool and provided a soundtrack for nearly every party with intellectual pretensions.
"Remove the hidden hologram of Bess Truman lifting her dress over her head."
That was the Kentucky or Pennsylvania rifle, a lighter, smaller-bored, more accurate weapon than the Brown Bess.
"Bess, You Is My Woman Now," from Porgy , has a brushed drum pattern underneath that keeps shifting its emphasis from the first and third beats to the second and fourth, constantly renewing a stirring chill.