Known for the albums Quiet Nights and Sketches of Spain, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis collaborated several times with pianist Gil Evans. Their 1958 adaptation of George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess bears little resemblance to the 1935 original. Davis and Evans felt no desire to please listeners expecting an exact duplication of the opera. They omitted parts, such as the aria “I Got Plenty of Nuthin’,” and sometimes made only brief gestures toward Gershwin’s melodies. But Davis and Evans’s willingness to recompose Gershwin’s work led to one of the most enduring albums in Davis’s catalog.
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mediumWhich choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
A
It shows why two musicians benefited from ignoring certain conventions.
B
It explains how one musician’s work influenced another’s.
C
It describes an attitude that influenced the artistic decisions of two musicians.
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It establishes a relationship between two musicians.