- jazz, big band, hard bop
- 51 min
- 13 tracks
- Columbia
Porgy and Bess is a studio album by the jazz musician Miles Davis, released in March 1959 on Columbia Records. The album features arrangements by Davis and collaborator Gil Evans from George Gershwin's 1935 opera of the same name.
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Grave, earnest, spare and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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- AllMusic5/5 ★
- DownBeat5/5 ★
- The Encyclopedia of Popular Music5/5 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyA
- The Penguin Guide to Jazz4/4 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide5/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1The Buzzard Song4:07
- 2Bess, You Is My Woman Now5:12
- 3Gone3:39
- 4Gone, Gone, Gone2:03
- 5Summertime3:19
- 6Bess, Oh Where's My Bess4:28
- 7Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)4:40
- 8Fisherman, Strawberry and Devil Crab4:07
- 9My Man's Gone Now6:13
- 10It Ain't Necessarily So4:23
- 11Here Come de Honey Man1:12
- 12I Loves You, Porgy4:07
- 13There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York3:24
13 tracks, 51 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Miles Davis
- Label
- Columbia
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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