Results for "Porgy & Bess"

Clark Terry and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra: Porgy & Bess

by Dan McClenaghan
September 17, 2004

Can a remake of a classic album also be considered a classic? It's hard to say. George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess, as done by Miles Davis on flugelhorn in front of Gil Evans' fabulous lighter-than-air arrangements--this was back in 1958--certainly qualifies as a major work of art, quite innovative at the time. The venerable trumpeter/flugelhornist Clark ...

Clark Terry with Jeff Lindberg and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra: Porgy & Bess

by John Kelman
September 13, 2004

2004 appears to be the year for reevaluation of Miles Davis classics. First came g.org's A New Kind of Blue , applying a more modern bent to the iconic Kind of Blue. Now the Chicago Jazz Orchestra, under the direction of Jeff Lindberg, takes on the Miles Davis/Gil Evans classic Porgy & Bess , this time ...

Porgy & Bess

By Joe Henderson

Label: Verve Records
Released: 1997
Track listing: Act I: Introduction: Jasbo Brown Blues; Summertime; Here Come De Honeyman / They Pass By Singin'; My Man's Gone Now. Act II: I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'; Bess, You Is My Woman Now; It Ain't Necessarily So; I Loves You Porgy. Act III: There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York; Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?; Summertime (Samba Version - Instrumental).

Joe Henderson: Porgy & Bess

by AAJ Staff
November 1, 1997

In the early 90's, Joe Henderson “reappeared" as a major star on the jazz scene with a Grammy winning tribute album to Billy Strayhorn. Since then, his new label, Verve, has released a steady stream of well received theme albums by Henderson, and the latest addition to that series is Henderson's attempt at the Gershwins' Porgy ...

Porgy & Bess

Label: Hallmark Records
Released: 1996

Porgy & Bess

By Nueva Manteca

Label: Timeless Records
Released: 1994

Porgy & Bess

By George Gershwin

Label: JJ-Tracks
Released: 1979

Porgy & Bess

By Ray Charles

Label: Abracadabra Music
Released: 1976

Porgy & Bess

By George Mraz

Label: JJ-Tracks
Released: 1976

Porgy & Bess

By Eddy Louiss

Label: Nocturne
Released: 1971