LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

The studio album ‘Porgy and Bess’ by jazz musician Miles Davis, released in March 1959 features arrangements by Davis and collaborator Gil Evans from George Gershwin’s 1935 opera ‘Porgy and Bess.’ The album was recorded in four sessions on July 22, July 29, August 4, and August 18, 1958, at Columbia’s 30th Street Studio in New York City. It is the second collaboration between Davis and Evans and has garnered much critical acclaim since its release, being acknowledged by some music critics as the best of their collaborations and by Jazz critics as historically important.

Track Listing:

• The Buzzard Song 04:07
• Bess, You Is My Woman Now 05:12
• Gone 03:39
• Gone, Gone, Gone 02:05
• Summertime 03:19
• Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess 04:31
• Prayer (Oh, Doctor Jesus) 04:41
• Fisherman, Starwberry And The Devil Crab 04:09
• My Man’s Gone Now 06:15
• It Ain’t Necessarily So 04:25
• Here Come De Honey Man 01:20
• I Loves You, Porgy 03:41
• There’s A Boat That’s Leaving Soon For New York 03:26