Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong – Porgy & Bess
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong – Porgy & Bess
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong – Porgy & Bess
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong – Porgy & Bess

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong – Porgy & Bess (2LP)

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RARITY - Sealed 

Vocals – Ella Fitzgerald [click here to see more vinyl featuring Ella Fitzgerald]

Vocals, Trumpet – Louis Armstrong

Double bass - Joe Mondragon

Drums - Alvin Stoller

Violin - Victor Arno, Robert Barene, Jacques Gasselin, Joseph Livoti, Dan Lube, Amerigo Marino, Erno Neufeld, Marshall Sosson, Robert Sushel, Gerald Vinci, Tibor Zelig

Violas - Myron Bacon, Abraham Hochstein, Raymond Menhennick, Myron Sandler

Cellos - Justin Di Tullio, Kurt Reher, William Van Den Burg

Trumpets - Frank Beach, Buddy Childers, Cappy Lewis

Trombones - Milt Bernhart, Marshall Cram, James Henderson, Lloyd Ulyate

French horn - Vincent DeRosa

Piano - Bill Miller, Paul Smith

Guitar - Tony Rizzi

Conducted by Russell Garcia

Music by George Gershwin

Lyrics by Du Bose Heyward and Ira Gershwin

 

2 LPs, Gatefold Jacket with Booklet

Limited to 3,000 copies

Original Master Tape : YES

Heavy Press : 180g

Record color : black

Speed : 33RPM

Size : 12”

Stereo

Studio

Record Press :  Pallas

Label :  Speakers Corner

Original Label : Verve

Recorded August 18–19 and October 14, 1957 in Los Angeles

Produced by Norman Granz

Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound 

Plated by Gary Salstrom at QRP 

Illustration by David Stone Martin

Photography by Herman Leonard, Phil Stern, Tommy Amer

Liner Notes by Lawrence D. Stewart, Norman Granz

Originally released in April 1959

Reissued in 2013

 

Tracks :

Side A:

1. Overture       

2. Summertime              

3. I Wants To Stay Here

Side B:

1. My Man's Gone Now              

2. I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'            

3. Buzzard Song            

4. Bess, You Is My Woman Now            

Side C:

1. It Ain't Necessarily So           

2. What You Want Wid Bess     

3. A Woman Is A Sometime Thing        

4. Oh, Doctor Jesus     

Side D:

1. Medley: Here Come De Honey Man - Crab Man - Oh, Dey's So Fresh & Fine            

2. There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York       

3. Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?        

4. Oh, Lawd, I'm On My Way!

 

Awards:

In 2001, the album was awarded a Grammy Hall Of Fame Award to mark recordings that are at least 25 years old, and which have “qualitative or historical significance”

 

Reviews :

"Producer Norman Granz oversaw two Porgy & Bess projects. The first involved Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, and came together during the autumn of 1957 with brassy big band and lush orchestral arrangements by Russ Garcia. This is the classic Verve Porgy & Bess, and it's been reissued many, many times. The second, recorded during the spring and summer of 1976 and issued by RCA, brought Ray Charles together with versatile British vocalist Cleo Laine, backed by an orchestra under the direction of Frank DeVol. A comparison of these two realizations bears fascinating fruit, particularly when the medleys of street vendors are played back to back. Those peasant songs, used in real life to purvey honey, strawberries, and crabs, were gathered and notated by George Gershwin and novelist Du Bose Heyward in 1934 during a visit to Folly Island, a small barrier island ten miles south of Charleston, SC, known today as Folly Beach. As Charleston Harbor had been one of the major ports during the importation of slaves from Africa, the waterfront was mostly populated by Gullahs, a reconstituted community that retained and preserved its ancestral cultures and languages to unusual degrees. Gershwin, who even learned to chant with the Gullah, absorbed the tonalities of the street cries he heard and wove them -- along with all of the other impressions stored within his sensitive mind -- into the fabric of his opera. What's really great about the Ella and Louis version is Ella, who handles each aria with disarming delicacy, clarion intensity, or usually a blend of both. Her take on "Buzzard Song" (sung 19 years later by Ray Charles) is a thrilling example of this woman's intrinsic theatrical genius. Pops sounds like he really savored each duet, and his trumpet work -- not a whole lot of it, because this is not a trumpeter's opera -- is characteristically good as gold. This marvelous album stands quite well on its own, but will sound best when matched with the Ray Charles/Cleo Laine version, especially the songs of the Crab Man, of Peter the Honey Man, and his wife, Lily the Strawberry Woman.” AllMusic review by Arwulf Arwulf

 

Rating :

AllMusic : 4.5 / 5 ; Discogs : 4.64 / 5 ; The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide : 3 / 5 ; Encyclopedia of Popular Music : 4 / 5 ; The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings : 3.5 / 4


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