Porgy and Bess

Tracklist

• 1
  Buzzard Song
  4:12
• 2
  Bess, You Is My Woman Now
  5:17
• 3
  Gone
  3:43
• 4
  Gone, Gone, Gone
  2:06
• 5
  Summertime
  3:20
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Oh Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess
  4:35
• 7
  Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)
  4:43
• 8
  Fishermen, Strawberry and Devil Crab
  4:12
• 9
  My Man’s Gone Now
  6:17
• 10
  It Ain’t Necessarily So
  4:29
• 11
  Here Come de Honey Man
  1:20
• 12
  I Loves You, Porgy
  4:03
  3.8 ★
• 13
  There’s a Boat That’s Leaving Soon for New York
  3:26

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Release credits

• Bernie Glow
  trumpet [4-5, 7, 10, 12-13]
• Bill Barber
  tuba [4-5, 7, 10, 12-13]
• Cannonball Adderley
  alto saxophone [4-5, 7, 10, 12-13]
• Danny Bank
  alto flute [12], bass clarinet [4-5, 7, 10, 12-13]
• Dick Hixson
  bass trombone [4-5, 7, 10, 13], trombone [12]
• Dick Nixon
  bass trombone [4, 7, 10, 13]
• Ernie Royal
  trumpet [4-5, 7, 10, 12-13]
• Frank Rehak
  trombone [4-5, 7, 10, 12-13]
• Gil Evans
  arranger [4-5, 7, 10, 12-13], conductor [4-5, 7, 10, 12-13]
• Gunther Schuller
  French horn [4-5, 7, 10, 12-13]
• Jerome Richardson
  clarinet [12], flute [5, 7, 12-13]
• Jimmy Cleveland
  trombone [4-5, 7, 10, 12-13]
• Jimmy Cobb
  drums (drum set) [7, 10, 12-13]
• Joe Bennett
  trombone [4-5, 7, 10, 12-13]
• Johnny Coles
  trumpet [4-5, 7, 10, 12-13]
• Julius Watkins
  French horn [4-5, 7, 10, 12-13]
• Louis R. Mucci
  trumpet [4-5, 7, 10, 12-13]
• Miles Davis
  flugelhorn [4-5, 7, 10, 13], performer [10], trumpet [4-5, 7, 10, 12-13]
• Paul Chambers
  bass [4-5, 7, 10, 13], double bass [12]
• Phil Bodner
  flute [4, 10]
• Philly Joe Jones
  drums (drum set) [4-5, 7, 13]
• Romeo Penque
  clarinet [12], flute [4-5, 7, 10, 12-13]
• Willie Ruff
  French horn [4-5, 7, 10, 12-13]
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Issues

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  Porgy and Bess

  12" Vinyl
  1958
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  Porgy and Bess

  CD
  1983
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  Porgy and Bess

  CD
  1987
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  Porgy and Bess

  12" Vinyl
  1987
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  Porgy and Bess

  CD (Columbia Jazz Masterpieces Series)
  1987
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  Porgy and Bess

  CD
  21 September 1996
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  Porgy and Bess

  CD
  25 March 1997
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  Porgy and Bess

  CD
  1997
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  Porgy and Bess

  SACD
  8 September 1999
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  Porgy and Bess

  CD
  24 May 2000
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  Porgy and Bess

  CD
  27 September 2006
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  Porgy and Bess

  CD
  12 November 2007
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  Porgy and Bess

  CD
  17 February 2009
• P
  Porgy and Bess

  CD
  3 April 2009
• P
  Porgy and Bess

  CD (Original Columbia Jazz Classics)
  20 April 2009
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  Porgy and Bess

  2x CD
  January 2010
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  Porgy and Bess

  12" Vinyl
  23 November 2012
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  Porgy and Bess

  Hybrid SACD (CD layer), Hybrid SACD (SACD layer, 2 channels)
  22 January 2019
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  Porgy and Bess

  Digital Media (DSD256)
  2023
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  Porgy and Bess

  CD
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  Porgy and Bess

  Digital Media (Mono Version)
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