Oscar Peterson Plays Porgy & Bess

Album by Oscar Peterson

Oscar Peterson Plays Porgy & Bess is an album by Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, released in 1959. Musically it presents jazz trio interpretations of material from the stage work, with Peterson's virtuosic piano, swinging group interplay and blues-inflected harmonic language, and it sits among his series of albums that reinterpret popular repertoire within a modern jazz trio approach.
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  1. 1.
    I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
    6:26
  2. 2.
    I Wants to Stay Here (a.k.a. I Loves You Porgy)
    6:22
  3. 3.
    Summertime
    3:50
  4. 4.
    Oh Dey's So Fresh and Fine (Strawberry Woman)
    0:55
  5. 5.
    Oh Lawd, I'm on My Way
    2:35
  6. 6.
    It Ain't Necessarily So
    4:01
  7. 7.
    There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York
    7:13
  8. 8.
    Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?
    4:56
  9. 9.
    Here Come De Honey Man
    1:11
  10. 10.
    Bess, You Is My Woman Now
    3:28

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