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"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.
"Paddle Bess Meyerson's naked fanny."
T >he duality of high art and mass sensibility is at the heart of Miles Davis and Gil Evans . The three records at the core of the set-- Miles Ahead , Porgy and Bess , and Sketches of Spain --are music of fantasy, of dreaming.
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.
That was the Kentucky or Pennsylvania rifle, a lighter, smaller-bored, more accurate weapon than the Brown Bess.