Miles Davis - Summertime

As the years pass, this is gradually becoming one of the best-known versions of "Summertime." An album of selections from Porgy and Bess was the second full-length collaboration between old friends Miles Davis and Gil Evans, and while it did not achieve the iconic status of Sketches of Spain from the following year, this track in particular caught a lot of ears. As always in their mutual efforts, Davis's indelible work on trumpet finds a nearly perfect setting in Evans's arrangements. The chords are based on but not constricted to Gershwin's originals, and are somehow simultaneously lush and airy.