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Toshiko Akiyoshi Plays Gershwin's Porgy And Bess

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Released
  
2016 January 4

Artist
  
Toshiko Akiyoshi

Genre
  
Jazz

Label
  
Studio Songs

Release date
  
4 January 2016

Recorded
  
2015 June 20, 21, New York, Avatar Studio

Similar
  
Toshiko Akiyoshi albums, Jazz albums

Toshiko Akiyoshi Plays Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" is a 2016 recording by jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Summertime"
  2. "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'"
  3. "I Loves You, Porgy"
  4. "My Man's Gone Now"
  5. "A Woman Is A Sometime Thing"
  6. "It Ain't Necessarily So"
  7. "Bess, You Is My Woman Now"
  8. "Bess, O Where's My Bess"
  9. "A Red-Haired Woman"

all music composed by George Gershwin

Personnel

  • Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
  • Paul Gill – bass (tracks 2, 8, 9)
  • Yasushi Nakamura (中村 恭士) – bass (tracks 5, 6, 7)
  • George Mraz – bass (tracks 3, 4)
  • Mark Taylor – drums (tracks 4~8)
  • Rodney Green – drums (tracks 2, 9)

    • References

    Toshiko Akiyoshi Plays Gershwin's Porgy And Bess Wikipedia
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