Miles Davis: My Ship

"My Ship, helmed by arranger Gil Evans to a port of pure bliss, is the most sublime 4½ minutes in all of music. In particular, Gils achingly beautiful descending glissando for trombones a little past 3 minutes into the piece is enough to melt the stoniest soul. The sun sits high in a sapphire sky, goes Ira Gershwins lyric, when my ship comes in. The orchestrator supreme, Gil Evans paints a sapphire sky in which Miles Davis is the sun sitting high. Its an everlastingly shining triumph for jazz. Our ship is in.