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Porgy and Bess

Miles Davis

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 1959
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Tracks

The 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 Come De Honey Man; I Loves You, Porgy; There's A Boat That's Leaving Soon For New York; I Loves You, Porgy (take 1, second version); Gone (take 4)

Personnel

Miles Davis
trumpet
Gil Evans
composer / conductor
Bernie Glow
trumpet
Johnny Coles
trumpet
Louis Mucci
trumpet
Joe Bennett
trombone, bass
Frank Rehak
trombone
Dick Hixon
trombone
Willie Ruff
french horn
Julius Watkins
french horn
Gunther Schuller
composer / conductor
Romeo Penque
woodwinds
Phil Bodner
woodwinds
Danny Bank
saxophone, baritone
Paul Chambers
bass, acoustic
Ernie Royal
trumpet

Additional Personnel / Information

Miles Davis - trumpet, flugelhorn with the Gil Evans Orchestra; Gunther Schuller: french horn; Cannonball Adderley: saxophone (alto); Romeo Penque: flute, alto flute, clarinet; Phil Bodner: flute, alto flute, clarinet; Danny Bank: alto flute, bass clarinet; Gil Evans: arranger, conductor; Jerome Richardson: flute, alto flute, clarinet; Philly Joe Jones: drums.


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