Porgy & Bess

Album by Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

Porgy and Bess is a studio album by American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, released in 1957. The album adapts music from the Gershwin opera into jazz vocal arrangements with orchestral backing and was part of her mid-century move toward longer thematic projects after the Song Book series.
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  1. 1.
    Porgy & Bess: Overture
    10:51
  2. 2.
    Porgy & Bess: Summertime
    4:58
  3. 3.
    Porgy & Bess: I Wants to Stay Here
    4:37
  4. 4.
    Porgy & Bess: My Man’s Gone Now
    4:01
  5. 5.
    Porgy & Bess: I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’
    3:52
  6. 6.
    Porgy & Bess: The Buzzard Song
    2:58
  7. 7.
    Porgy & Bess: Bess, You Is My Woman Now
    5:29
  8. 8.
    Porgy & Bess: It Ain’t Necessarily So
    6:34
  9. 9.
    Porgy & Bess: What You Want Wid Bess?
    2:01
  10. 10.
    Porgy & Bess: A Woman Is a Sometime Thing
    4:47
  11. 11.
    Porgy & Bess: Oh, Doctor Jesus
    2:02
  12. 12.
    Porgy & Bess: Medley: Here Come De Honey Man / Crab Man / Oh, Dey’s So Fresh and Fine (Strawberry Woman)
    3:29
  13. 13.
    Porgy & Bess: There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York
    4:54
  14. 14.
    Porgy & Bess: Oh Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess?
    2:36
  15. 15.
    Porgy & Bess: Oh Lawd, I’m on My Way!
    2:56

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