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Porgy and Bess (Mundell Lowe album)

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Released
  
1958

Porgy & Bess (1958)
  
TV Action Jazz! (1959)

Release date
  
1958

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
32:49

Artist
  
Mundell Lowe

Label
  
Sound and Vision

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Recorded
  
July 16 & 17 and October 3, 1958 New York City

Similar
  
TV Action Jazz!, A Grand Night for Swinging, New Music of Alec Wilder, The Mundell Lowe Qu, Guitar Moods

Porgy & Bess is an album by American jazz guitarist Mundell Lowe and his All Stars featuring their interpretations of the George Gershwin folk opera Porgy and Bess recorded in 1958 for the RCA Camden label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars with its review by Scott Yanow stating, "Lowe's arrangements are colorful and swinging, doing justice to the music while turning the familiar themes into jazz".

Track listing

All compositions by George Gershwin

  1. "Summertime" - 4:46
  2. "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" - 3:05
  3. "I Loves You, Porgy" - 4:57
  4. "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'" - 2:50
  5. "Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?" - 2:18
  6. "Red Headed Woman" - 2:22
  7. "My Man's Gone Now" - 3:24
  8. "It Takes a Long Pull to Get There" - 2:46
  9. "It Ain't Necessarily So" - 3:11
  10. "There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York" - 3:10

Personnel

  • Mundell Lowe - guitar
  • Art Farmer - trumpet (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 6-9)
  • Don Elliott - mellophone, vibraphone (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 6-9)
  • Tony Scott - clarinet, baritone saxophone (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 6-9)
  • Ben Webster - tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 6-9)
  • George Duvivier - bass
  • Osie Johnson - drums (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 6-9)
  • Ed Shaughnessy - drums, vibraphone (tracks 3, 5 & 10)

    • Songs

    1Summertime4:47
    2Bless - You Is My Woman3:06
    3I Love You - Porgy4:57

    References

    Porgy & Bess (Mundell Lowe album) Wikipedia
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