- vocal jazz, jazz, musical, traditional pop
- 55 min
- 14 tracks
- Verve
Porgy and Bess is a studio album by jazz vocalist and trumpeter Louis Armstrong and singer Ella Fitzgerald, released on Verve Records in 1959. The third and final of the pair's albums for the label, it is a suite of selections from the George Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess. Orchestral arrangements are by Russell Garcia, who had previously arranged the 1956 jazz vocal recording The Complete Porgy and Bess.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide3/5 ★
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5 ★
- The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings3.5/4 ★
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Tracks
- 1Summertime4:59
- 2I Want to Stay Here4:37
- 3My Man’s Gone Now4:02
- 4I Got Plenty O’Nuttin3:54
- 5Buzzard Song2:59
- 6Bess, You Is My Woman5:30
- 7It Ain’t Necessarily So6:35
- 8What Do You Want Wid Bess?2:02
- 9A Woman Is a Sometime Thing4:47
- 10Oh, Doctor Jesus2:01
- 11Medley: Here Comes de Honey Man / Crab Man / Oh Dey’s So Fresh an’ Fine (Strawberry Woman)2:55
- 12There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York4:55
- 13Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess2:38
- 14Oh Lawd, I’m on My Way2:56
14 tracks, 55 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong
- Label
- Verve
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- XE
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