Description
**THIS IS A VINYL LP**
Release Date: 2015
Label: Not Now Music
Track List
Side A
- Overture
- Summertime
- I Wants To Stay Here
- My Man’s Gone Now
- I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’
- Buzzard Song
- Bess, You Is My Woman Now
Side B
- It Ain’t Necessarily So
- What You Want Wid Bess?
- A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
- Oh, Doctor Jesus
- Medley: Here Come De Honey Man / Crab Man / Oh, Dey’s So Fresh And Fine (Strawberry Woman)
- There’s A Boat Dat’s Leavin Soon For New York
- Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess?
- Oh Lawd, I’m On My Way!
Notes
‘Porgy And Bess’, recorded in late 1957, was the third album by Ella and Louis to be produced by Norman Granz. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001, thanks to a special Grammy award established in 1973 for recordings at least 25 years old that have ‘qualitative or historical significance’.
Ella Fitzgerald – Vocals
Louis Armstrong – Vocals, Trumpet
Russell Garcia – arranger, conductor
Victor Arno, Robert Barene, Jacques Gasselin, Joseph Livoti, Dan Lube, Amerigo Marino,
Erno Neufeld, Marshall Sosson, Robert Sushel, Gerald Vinci, Tibor Zelig — violins
Myron Bacon, Abraham Hochstein, Raymond Menhennick, Myron Sandler — violas
Justin Di Tullio, Kurt Reher, William Van Den Burg — cellos
Frank Beach, Buddy Childers, Cappy Lewis — trumpets
Milt Bernhart, Marshall Cram, James Henderson, Lloyd Ulyate — trombones
Vincent DeRosa – French horn
Bill Miller, Paul Smith – piano
Tony Rizzi – guitar
Joe Mondragon – double bass
Alvin Stoller – drums
