George Gershwin and Summertime
/George Gershwin employed the pentatonic scale in a number of his works, most notably in Summertime, as John Goldsby writes below. And, while Summertime is based entirely on the the pentatonic scale - except for one note in measure 7 - Gershwin also makes use of the emotional directness of the pentatonic in pieces such as Someone to Watch Over Me.
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