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Mark Masters Jazz Ensemble: Porgy & Bess Redefined

by Jack Bowers
May 6, 2005

In the seven decades since its completion, George Gershwin's landmark folk opera Porgy & Bess has been “redefined on a number of occasions by various jazz artists, perhaps most notably in 1959 by trumpeter Miles Davis with an orchestra conducted by arranger Gil Evans (a touchstone that was astutely reinterpreted only last year by Clark Terry ...