Porgy and Bess / [as performed by] Miles Davis.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Gershwin, George, 1898-1937.

Contributor:

Davis, Miles, instrumentalist.

Evans, Gil, 1912-1988, arranger, conductor.

Joseph B. Glossberg Fund.

Standardized Title:

Porgy and Bess. Selections; arranged

Language:

English

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Jazz--1951-1960.

Jazz.

Operas--Excerpts, Arranged.

Operas.

Trumpet with jazz ensemble.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Excerpts.

Arrangements (Music)

Physical Description:

1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

Title on container: George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia/Legacy, [1997]

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

digital recording

Contents:

Buzzard song (4:07)

Bess, you is my woman now (5:10)

Gone (3:37)

Gone, gone, gone (2:03)

Summertime (3:17)

Oh Bess, oh where's my Bess (4:28)

Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus) (4:39)

Fisherman, Strawberry, and Devil Crab (4:06)

My man's gone now (6:14)

It ain't necessarily so (4:23)

Here comes de honey man (1:18)

I loves you, Porgy (3:39)

There's a boat that's leaving soon for New York (3:23)

I loves you, Porgy (take 1, 2nd version) (4:14)

Gone (take 4) (3:40).

Participant:

Miles Davis, trumpet ; Gil Evans, arranger-conductor.

Credits:

Reissue produced by Phil Schaap ; original recordings produced by Cal Lampley.

Notes:

Jazz orchestra arrangements of opera excerpts.

Recorded July 22 and 29, Aug. 4 and 18, 1958, 30th Street Studio, New York City.

Originally released on LP as Columbia CL 1274 in 1959; with bonus alternative takes (tracks 14-15).

Compact disc.

Program notes by Charles Edward Smith, Bill Kirchner and Phil Schaap (18 p. : ill.) inserted in container.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Joseph B. Glossberg Fund.

Contains:

Buzzard song.

Bess, you is my woman now.

Gone.

Gone, gone, gone.

Summertime.

Oh Bess, oh where's my Bess.

Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)

Fisherman, strawberry, and devil crab.

My man's gone now.

It ain't necessarily so.

Here comes de honey man.

I loves you, Porgy.

There's a boat that's leaving soon for New York.

OCLC:

36822811

Publisher Number:

074646514122

CK 65141 Columbia/Legacy

CL 1274 Columbia