Known for the albums Someday My Prince Will Come and Kind of Blue, 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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Davis and Evans’s adaptation of Porgy and Bess received a better critical reception than the work on which it was based.
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Davis’s creative efforts became more experimental when he collaborated with Evans.
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Audiences for jazz music tend to prefer novelty over convention.
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Davis and Evans’s confidence in revising Gershwin’s opera led to the creation of one of Davis’s most notable recordings.