Porgy & Bess (Buddy Collette album)

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Porgy & Bess
Porgy & Bess (Buddy Collette album).jpg
Studio album by
Buddy Collette and the Poll Winners
Released1959
RecordedJuly 1957
Los Angeles, CA
GenreJazz
LabelInterlude MO 505
ProducerRobert Scherman
Buddy Collette chronology
Everybody's Buddy
(1957) 		Porgy & Bess
(1959) 		Flute Fraternity
(1957)

Porgy & Bess (subtitled Modern Interpretations) is an album by multi-instrumentalist Buddy Collette featuring jazz versions of music from the George Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess recorded at sessions in 1957 and released on the Interlude label in 1959.[1][2]

Reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic2/5 stars[3]

Allmusic awarded the album 2  stars with the review by Scott Yanow stating "other than the unusual colors, little all that surprising happens during the obscure cool jazz effort".[3]

Track listing[]

All compositions by George Gershwin

  1. "Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?" - 2:57
  2. "My Man's Gone Now" - 3:24
  3. "Summertime" - 4:13
  4. "It Ain't Necessarily So" - 3:28
  5. "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'" - 2:38
  6. "There's a Boat That's Leavin' for New York" - 3:20
  7. "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" - 3:26
  8. "A Woman Is a Sometime Thing" - 4:42

Personnel[]

References[]

  1. ^ Discogs album entry accessed November 18, 2016
  2. ^ Jim Hall discography Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine accessed November 18, 2016
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Yanow, Scott. Porgy & Bess – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 17, 2016.
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