Porgy & Bess (Buddy Collette album)

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]

Porgy & Bess
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)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[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. Yanow, Scott. Porgy & Bess – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 17, 2016.
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