Helen wrote:

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How many jazz singers sing about "my woman" though?

Off the top of my heaad, it's right there in the title of "Bess, You Is My Woman Now". Haven't heard it in context to know precisely how Porgy means it. But he loved her, right?

He did. But remember that the play takes place on Catfish Row, amongst gamblers and drug addicts who spend their time in and out of prison; Porgy himself murders Crown in anger later on. Bess herself is making her living by becoming the mistress of whoever happens to be most powerful; in the end she goes off with Sporting Life after accepting his gift of cocaine. If the scriptwriter is trying to draw a connection between Gan and Porgy, then he's suggesting that Gan is a criminal and a murderer.

Jenny

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