{"product_id":"davis-miles-porgy-and-bess-0821797220064","title":"Porgy and Bess","description":"MASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES AND LIMITED TO 3,000 NUMBERED COPIES\u003cp\u003eIf a more significant, influential, and lasting result of a creative musical partnership exists than that of Miles Davis and Gil Evans' \u003cem\u003ePorgy and Bess\u003c\/em\u003e, society hasn't seen it. It's impossible to overstate the importance of the pair's collaboration on the landmark 1959 update of George Gershwin's opera. Transcending genre, time, and place, the profound statement finds Evans and Davis implementing modal approaches in a mainstream context and advancing jazz idioms that would become the foundation of the form's still-classic era. And that's saying nothing of the soulful playing – legendary performances by Davis' first great quintet that can now be heard in pristine detail courtesy of this definitive digital edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Buzzard Song\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eBess, You Is My Woman Now\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eGone\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eGone, Gone, Gone\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eSummertime\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eOh Bess, Where's My Bess?\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ePrayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eFisherman, Strawberry and Devil Crab\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eMy Man's Gone Now\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eIt Ain't Necessarily So\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eHere Come de Honey Man\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eI Wants to Stay Here (a.k.a. I Loves You, Porgy)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eThere's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cp\u003eMastered from the original tapes and limited to 3,000 numbered copies, \u003cem\u003ePorgy and Bess\u003c\/em\u003e attains previously unheard degrees of clarity, openness, immediacy, and depth on Mobile Fidelity's hybrid SACD. Here, the arrangements unfold amidst practically limitless soundstages and burst with multi-dimensional images. Separation between instruments allows you to locate individual band members and trace the decay of the notes. Davis' iconic solo passages take on borderline-surreal qualities of realism and shape. The magisterial scope of the Evans-conducted orchestra emerges with room-filling bloom, color, and dynamics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile difficult to pinpoint its single-best strength, Mobile Fidelity's reissue gives reference-level\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mfsl (Fenn Music)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53758358651222,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/davis-miles-porgy-and-bess-0821797220064","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}