Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Porgy and Bess

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Genre: Jazz

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Orginally released in 1957 - 2013 Speakers Corner re-issue on 180g audiophile vinyl -There have been many recordings of the music from Gershwin's often called the "American Folk Opera" Porgy and Bess, but this is one of the more rewarding ones. Lo...
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  Release date: 05-12-2013 (Orginally released in 1957)

2013 Speakers Corner re-issue on 180g audiophile vinyl -There have been many recordings of the music from Gershwin's often called the "American Folk Opera" Porgy and Bess, but this is one of the more rewarding ones. Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald sing all of the parts, performing 16 of the play's best melodies. Sounding better than ever remastered at Sterling Sound from the Original Analog Master Tapes and pressed at Pallas Germany.

Tracks:
A1     Overture     10:50
A2     Summertime     4:52
A3     I Wants To Stay Here     4:33

B1     My Man's Gone Now     3:57
B2     I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'     3:48
B3     The Buzzard Song     3:00
B4     Bess, You Is My Woman     5:25

C1     It Ain't Necessarily So     6:30
C2     What You Want Wid Bess?     1:58
C3     A Woman Is A Sometime Thing     4:50
C4     Oh, Doctor Jesus     2:00
Medley:
D1     Here Come De Honey Man     1:42
D2     Crab Man     0:45
D3     Oh Dey's So Fresh And Fine (Strawberry Woman)     0:48
D4     Medley Music     0:36
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D5     There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York     4:51
D6     Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?     2:10
D7     Oh Lawd, I'm On My Way 2:58

Features:
    180gr Pure Virgin Vinyl Pressed at Pallas Germany
    Audiophile remaster from the Original Analog Master Tapes
    Remastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound
    Pure all Analog Mastering
    Gatefold cover includes replica of original attached booklet

Musicians:
Norman Granz (producer)
Russell Garcia (conductor)
Ella Fitzgerald (vocals)
Louis Armstrong (vocals, trumpet)

The dream of creating an American opera such as Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha, written in 1911, inspired George Gershwin a good twenty years later to amazing compositional feats. While Gershwin had brought his musical and musical comedies with great éclat to Broadway, he wanted his through-composed stage work Porgy And Bess to be regarded as a legitimate opera.

No matter whether one regards this exceptional work as "American folk opera" (The New York Times) or as a veristic portrayal of African-American life, central to the work is the expressionistic orchestral music that includes (work) songs, spirituals and elements of jazz, and the cast of singers, which, at the insistence of Gershwin, featured African-American singers.

This stipulation will certainly have suited Verve boss Norman Granz who engaged not only a fresh and lively big band but also a classical string orchestra to support his successful duo of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Thanks to this superb line-up, the catchy song "I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’" rolls along sleekly with swing and drive, while "Summertime" and "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" wafts away to the sound of heavenly violins.

Listening to this music, you couldn’t care less about the genre or category, just as long as these two genial musicians perform wonderfully arranged material from the American Song Book. The incomparable nasal twang of Armstrong’s solo trumpet seeks out unerringly jazz elements where you would least expect them.


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