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Porgy & Bess Redefined!

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2005
Track listing: Introduction; Summertime; Woman Is a Sometime Thing; Gone, Gone, Gone; My Man's Gone Now; It Ain't Necessarily So; Here Comes De Honey; I Loves You, Porgy; Red Headed Woman; Clara, Clara; There's a Boat.

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Porgy & Bess Redefined!

By Mark Masters Ensemble

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Released: 2005
Track listing: Introduction; Summertime; A Woman is a Sometime Thing; Gone, Gone, Gone; My Man's Gone Now; It Ain't Necessarily So; Here Come Da Honey Man; I Loves You Porgy; A Red Headed WOman; Clara Clara; There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York

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Mark Masters Ensemble: Porgy & Bess Redefined!

Read "Porgy & Bess Redefined!" reviewed by George Harris

by George Harris
September 5, 2005

Well, they said it couldn't be done, but he did it. Arranger Mark Masters has breathed new and refreshing life into Gershwin's Porgy & Bess. Just when you thought Miles may have had the last word back in '61, Masters adds a touch of Mingus, a sprig of Kenton, and songs that you've heard a thousand ...

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Mark Masters Ensemble: Porgy & Bess Redefined!

Read "Porgy & Bess Redefined!" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
May 30, 2005

Mark Masters is conductor and president of the American Jazz Institute in Pasadena, California. His projects honor the history of jazz while putting his personal stamp on each arrangement. Porgy & Bess Redefined! emerges fresh and alive, as Masters has seen fit to arrange the time-tested music for jazz orchestra with its themes cemented between soloists. ...

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Mark Masters Ensemble: Porgy & Bess Redefined!

Read "Porgy & Bess Redefined!" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
May 10, 2005

This is the second outstanding treatment of Gershwin's famed folk opera, Porgy & Bess, within the past eight months. On the other recent version, Jeff Lindberg's Chicago Jazz Orchestra faithfully delivered the 1959 Gil Evans-Miles Davis arrangement with Clark Terry providing superlative trumpet interpretation. Mark Masters, who has spent the past few seasons artfully interpreting the ...

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Mark Masters Ensemble: Porgy & Bess Redefined!

Read "Porgy & Bess Redefined!" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
April 11, 2005

More than any complete score of the 20th Century, Gershwin's Porgy and Bess has to be the one most covered by jazz artists. A short list of significant players who have tackled the cycle includes Hank Jones, Oscar Peterson, Ray Charles and Cleo Laine, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, and Joe Henderson. Arguably the most definitive ...